Arnold Goodwin

Arnold Frederick Goodwin (29 July 1889 – 26 March 1978) was a New Zealand printmaker and puppeteer.

Biography
Goodwin was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, on 29 July 1889 to parents George and Florence Goodwin. He studied at the Leicester School of Art and the Académie Julian, and briefly worked in New York before immigrating to New Zealand, where he settled in Auckland in 1913. He worked as a printer for Chandler & Co and The New Zealand Herald, before starting his own advertising company, and the Carlton Art Studio. In 1916, with his friend Thomas Gulliver, he founded the Quoin Club to promote graphic and print art in Auckland.

Later in life, Goodwin was director of design and applied art at the Elam School of Fine Arts, and was involved with the Auckland Little Theatre Society, where he designed sets and performed as an actor and marionette puppeteer. It has been said that "puppetry in New Zealand begins and ends with one man: Arnold Goodwin", and that "his touring marionette productions of Shakespearean plays in the 1940s were widely acclaimed as being in world class".

Goodwin died in Auckland on 26 March 1978, at the age of 88.