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Originally Posted by Garth Herrick
I believe one of the principal jurors (the artist component of the jury) was Sydney Goodman, a Philadelphia artist and teacher of international repute, that I once studied with at PAFA. 25 years ago, he'd wander into my student studio cubicle, not say a thing about my work, but praise the art postcards I had taped up to my wall. He took some of them for his own inspiration. In 1994 I painted the ancestral version of Apotheoun, "Apotheosis of the Chunnel". Sydney Goodman awarded this as the top prize best of show in a local exhibiton in 1996. Whenever we'd cross paths, we would nod hello to each other. He seems to remember me, and acknowledged that when he autographed his monograph book for me during a retrospective exhibition of his at the Philadelphia Museum of Art eight or nine years ago. Naturally I thought he might like Apotheoun if I entered it. Perhaps he did to an extent; it is hard to know what the other three judges had in mind for the final selection. I thought this painting would be as good a gamble as any, given his role on the jury. I have not personally been in contact with Mr. Goodman in several years. Some day it would be interesting to sit down with him and hear how he viewed this jurying process for the National Portrait Gallery.
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Dear Michele,
Yes as I stated above I do know Sydney Goodman and he may know me as a former student. I have not been in contact with him for five years, so there is no conflict of interest in this competition. I would love to meet with him after the show opens and get his take on the whole process. As I said above, he greatly admires the earlier version of the painting that led up tp Apotheoun, which is the reason I entered it.
I don't know if he has a website, at least I could not find one. He tends to paint on a colossal scale both in conception and size. In school he always wanted me to simplify my modeling of form in paint. I found one web image. He frequently puts himself in his paintings. In this case he is holding the camera at the bottom.
Garth