Smiling Girl (Pam)

Sidney Goodman was an American painter and draftsman whose figures emerge from gestural abstraction into a kind of psychological realism. Working primarily in oil and charcoal across the postwar decades, he developed a distinctive approach to the human form that emphasized psychological presence over anatomical precision. His work oscillates between abstraction and representation, creating portraits and figure studies marked by expressive brushwork and tonal depth.

Philadelphia, PA, USA