Best known for his depictions of Boston street scenes and the waterfront in both oil and pastel, Arthur C. Goodwin painted en plein air in a style that merged Impressionism with the aesthetics of New York’s Ashcan School. Despite being self-taught, he was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists as well as the Boston Society of Water Color Painters. While he lived the majority of his life in Boston, he settled in New York City for part of the 1920’s, during which time he captured the urban life of the area from a studio in Washington Square. Among other institutions, Goodwin exhibited at both the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts numerous times. Today, his work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Colby College Museum of Art.