Title is Deer New York Zoo Park. 5 1/2" by 8". Backlight reveals no inpainting or repair. Provenance: The Work of Philip Goodwin From the Collection of the Mamaroneck Public Library New York. The artist; T. Raymond Goodwin, the artist's brother; Mamaroneck Public Library, New York, acquired from the above, 1938. Philip Russell Goodwin (1881 - 1935) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut. Philip Goodwin is known for Animal, field-stream illustration. The release of one of the greatest and most endearing publications in American history, Call of the Wild, in July 1903 would have a profound effect on the career of Charles M. Russell, even though he had nothing to do with it. Who illustrated the book? Not Frederic Remington and not Carl Rungius. No, it was illustrated by a twenty-two year old wunderkind named Philip R. Goodwin who had just opened his New York City studio. Jack London?s novel Call of the Wild was an overnight sensation. The book earned him international acclaim, and royalties from his novels made him the highest paid author in America to date. With an impressive career ahead of him, which included illustrating African Game Trails (1909) by Theodore Roosevelt and hundreds of sporting art images?one of the most famous being the Winchester Horse and Rider (1919) logo?Goodwin would be one of the artists that greatly influenced Charles M. Russell for the rest of his career. Philip Russell Goodwin was born on September 16, 1881?not 1882 as often erroneously written?in Norwich, Connecticut. Early on he was recognized as a child prodigy attending the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design when he was only fourteen. He soon caught the eye of America?s most famous illustrator, Howard Pyle, who taught such greats as Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Harvey Dunn, Frank Schoonover, W.H.D. Koerner, and Frank Stick. Pyle started the Brandywine School in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania where many of the great illustrators would study over the years. Goodwin was training there as a teenager ahead of N.C. Wyeth. Casper Whitney who took over the position of publisher and editor of Outing magazine in 1901 soon commissioned young Goodwin to paint a dozen illustrations for several articles. It was Goodwin who introduced Russell to Whitney, who immediately became a big supporter of the cowboy artist. Goodwin accepted an invitation by the Russells to visit them at Bull Head Lodge in Glacier National Park in Montana in the summer of 1907. By that time the young New Yorker had illustrated a dozen books?including the Call of the Wild; dozens of magazine articles; three covers of the great magazine of the day, The Saturday Evening Post; and sporting advertisements for Harrington and Richardson Arms Company; Kemper Thomas Company; Marble Arms and Manufacturing Company; Marlin Firearms Co.; Peters Cartridge Company; Savage-Stevens; and Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Amazingly, he was only twenty-five years old. The two artists painted outdoors together for the first time. Lacking formal training, Russell learned much from his younger counterpart as evidenced by masterpieces he generated during the next few years. By the time Goodwin returned in 1910, he had illustrated African Game Trails (1909) by the most famous and popular man in the world, Theodore Roosevelt who called on the best sporting artist in America known for his ability to capture arrested motion. Goodwin would never visit Montana again, although the artists corresponded on occasion. In 1911 Goodwin spent six weeks in the Canadian Rockies with Carl Rungius who was generally regarded as the most accomplished big game painter. Like Goodwin, Rungius relied on sketches and field photography to lend detail to paintings completed back in the studio. In August 1911 Rungius invited Goodwin to join him and guide Jimmy Simpson on a hunting and sketching trip. As was the case with Russell, Rungius?s paintings were transformed by his time with Goodwin. National advertising flourished after the war during the roaring twenties as Americans confidently acquired material possessions and had the leisure time to use them. Advertising men answered new desires by establishing brand names that delicately encouraged dissatisfaction with possessions seemingly outmoded but not necessarily worn out. It was the beginning of a golden period for sporting illustration that kept Goodwin busy for years. His work landed on calendars, envelopes, posters, prints, magazine covers, die cut counter top displays, among many other items. But happy days were over in the 1930s as the Great Depression ravaged almost every American home. In 1912 Goodwin had relocated to Mamaroneck, New York. Eight years later, he moved to another home with a studio located behind it. A life-long bachelor, Goodwin was joined by his mother who lived with him until her death. The Depression battered gun sales. Guns were no longer the tools of sportsmen, but were perceived as tools of war and cruelty. Advertisers only wanted Goodwin?s works that emphasized conservation, fishing, fire prevention, and fun and work in the great outdoors. And they didn?t pay much. The end came on a chilly December 13 day when Goodwin died of pneumonia at the Port Chester Hospital at Port Chester, New York. He was only fifty-four years old. Few artists have had the resurgence in popularity that Goodwin has enjoyed. The interest in his art?from collectors of sporting art, Western art, and illustrations?has skyrocketed. For example, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 2000 celebrated The Year of the Cowboy and chose Goodwin?s 1910 oil masterpiece, When Things Are Quiet?a scene of a cowboy with wooly chaps laying on a hill side next to his horse gazing over the cattle in the valley below?on their commemorative poster. Still, another tribute to the genius of Philip R. Goodwin, rightly titled, America?s Sporting and Wildlife artist.