Minetta Good

Minetta Good, also known as Minnetta Good (1895–1946), was an American painter and printmaker who was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her work often depicted farm scenes, family life, and/or transportation.

Biography Born in 1895 in New York City. Good attended Cooper Union and New York School of Applied Design for Women. Good studied at the Art Students League of New York with F. Luis Mora, and Robert Henri and received training from Cecilia Beaux.

For much of the 1920s and 1930s Good lived in Califon and Freehold, New Jersey. She won many prizes through the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, The Dresden mural, "Retrospection" (1938) depicts early days of the county and is still located in this original post office location. At the St. Martinsville post office there was a larger painting of Evangeline, seated under an Evangeline Oak tree along the Bayou Teche with colorful water hyacinths and in the background is the Catholic church. Her work may be found in the National Gallery of Art.

Death and legacy Good died in 1946, at age 51 in New York City, New York.

Good's art work is found in many public museum collections including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois State Museum, Iowa State University Museums, University of Massachusetts Amherst Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Newark Museum, University of Wyoming Art Museum, David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University, among others.