William Newport Goodell

William Newport Goodell (1908–1999) was an American artist, craftsman, and educator. He was born August 16, 1908 in Germantown, Philadelphia and briefly attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), including its country assistant professor in Chester Springs, studying below Pennsylvania impressionist Daniel Garber and noted academician Joseph Thurman Pearson, Jr., before foundation his own studio upon Germantown Avenue in 1929.

Between 1930 and 1949 Goodell was represented via judges or invitation in a range of major annual and special exhibitions upon the East Coast and won several cash awards and purchase prizes, including the First Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy of Design annual exhibition in New York in 1933. He in addition to exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the PAFA, and Woodmere Art Museum, among other notable venues.

During the 1940s, Goodell served gone Pearson upon the Woodmere Art Museum's "very effective exhibition committee", and for several years as a aficionado of the exhibition committee of the Fellowship of the PAFA. He was described as one of a handful of “important young person Pennsylvania artists” in a Works Progress Administration let in guide.