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=Jeremiah Goodman, aka Jeremiah (architectural renderings, interiors paintings)=

Jeremiah Goodman (born October 22, 1922, Niagara Falls, N.Y.) is an architectural renderer, illustrator and painter who lives in New York City. His work is signed with his first name only, Jeremiah. He is among the top renderers in the world as well as a renowned room portrait painter.

Architectural Renderings and Room Paintings
Three-dimensional rendering allows architects and interior designers to advise their clients with a visual of how a room would look before construction and decoration begins. Renderers require training in design, perspective, art, familiarity with building materials and textiles, knowledge of light and shadow, combined with imagination in order to prescribe the yet-to-be-created interior a personality. They must work quickly to meet deadlines. Various techniques and media have been utilized over the centuries by renderers: pen and ink, pencil, chalk, water-colour and guache paints and most recently, computer assisted drawing (CAD). A “room painting” differs from a rendering in that it is a portrait made after the job has been completed. In a sense, it is superior in preserving the essential mood of an interior once it has been dismantled or revamped, even if there is a photographic record.

Early life
Born to Russian-Polish immigrants, Louis Goodman and Anna Cohen, the youngest of five children: brothers Bill (Lucky), Bernard, Robert and sister Sylvia. His father was a butcher, mother a homemaker with artistic flair. His siblings were all talented, enjoyed art, performing and playing musical instruments. While convalescing from a right-hand injury at the age of four, he was given a set of crayons and adapted by becoming left-handed, and developed an interest in art.

Education
In 1930 the family moved to Buffalo. During the Great Depression there was little work for his father, but Jeremiah and his siblings were able to attend Lafayette High School. Studying art with Elizabeth Weiffenbach and Ethel Davis, with the intention of becoming a set designer for Hollywood or Broadway, his talent was nurtured. Eventually, one instructor told his parents that she had nothing more to teach him since his ability had surpassed her own. He graduated in 1939.

In 1940, at the age of 18, Jeremiah moved to New York City to attend the Franklin School of Professional Art on a full scholarship, living with a relative. After graduating, he studied part-time at Parsons School of Design, then known as the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, which offered interior decoration and commercial illustration courses. He shared a room with Sam Muffaletto, another art student, whose brother Vincent married Goodman's sister Sylvia.

Influences
Painters John Singer Sargent, J.M.W. Turner, Edouard Vuillard and Walter Gay. Architect John Nash Japanese ink brush painting, Zen calligraphy. Turkish-born, California-based interior designer, Kalef Alaton. Betty Carter, his Painting instructor at Parsons School of Design. David Payne, his art teacher at the Franklin School, who encouraged him to paint interiors spaces.

In 1948, Jeremiah met British actor Sir John Gielgud, and travelled with him to Europe for the first time in 1949. Gielgud encouraged him to paint room portraits, a pursuit which would continue throughout his life. At the same time, another painter, William Bankier Henderson, aide-de-camp to Sir Archibald Wavell, the Viceroy of India, introduced him to a stratum of people who allowed him to paint interpretations of rooms in their upscale residences.

In 1949, Jeremiah was given entry to the hidden Parisian mansions of illustrious fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin and her daughter, Marguerite Marie-Blanche. Their home decor department, Lanvin-Décoration, was run by Armand-Albert Rateau, who, along with Lanvin, designed the interior of the Daunou Theatre in 1921. Lanvin’s motto, "Art and fashion are one" is evident in Jeremiah's creative endeavours.

He attributes Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, The Secret Garden (1910–11) as an inspiration for the layout of his East Hampton home where he planned intimate personal spaces.

Beginnings
His first job in New York was for window display designers Sue Williams and Dana Cole, while attending school. During WWII, he returned to Buffalo, trained as a machinist with and worked for Curtiss-Wright in their experimental division.

Set Design
In 1945 he moved to Los Angeles, hired by stage and screen interiors set designer, Joseph B. Platt, (designer on films, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Portrait of Jennie), as an illustrator/sketch artist. After an offer to decorate the set of a Hollywood jungle film, he was frustrated, realizing that his talents were not being fully utilized and returned to New York City.

Display Design
In Manhattan, he did whatever he could to earn a living as an illustrator and designer, creating window displays for Sachs Quality Stores and McCrory's, keeping an entrepreneurial eye out for opportunities.

From 1952, for over thirty years, he worked for Lord & Taylor department stores under the Art Direction of Harry Rodman, first designing windows, painting murals and eventually illustrating advertisements and catalogues. Jeremiah said of Rodman, "He was the most encouraging Art Director one could ever hope for."

Advertising Illustration
As the relationship with Lord & Taylor developed, he created fashion illustrations and advertising for magazines and newspapers, most notably, The New York Times. His style, accurate yet spontaneous, has been copied by many, but few come close to the original. His brushwork and spatter techniques were unique in that genre.

Editorial Illustration
In 1949, Jeremiah began illustrating the covers of Interior Design magazine, an assignment that continued until late 1964. In the same period, he created illustrations for Harper's Bazaar, House & Garden and Vogue magazines.

Book Illustration
1963–1965 My Favorite Things: A Personal Guide to Decorating and Entertaining by Dorothy Rodgers. Jeremiah illustrated the book for decorator/inventor Dorothy (Feiner) Rogers and her husband Richard Rodgers, composer of Broadway musicals. He said working with them "… made me realize I do my best work when I have to reach my highest level."

2010 The Great Lady Decorators: Lessons from the Women Who Invented Interior Design, by Adam Lewis, published by Rizzoli, the definitive book on the women who created the decorating world as we know it, aptly features room portraits by Jeremiah created by design icons Frances Elkins and Rose Cummings, to name a few.

2007 (reprinted 2011) — Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision, Forward by Edward Albee, PowerHouse Press

Designer Commissions

 * McMillen Inc.: Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial Celebration presentation rendering


 * Ruby Ross Wood


 * Billy Baldwin: Portrait of Diana Vreeland's living room


 * Dorothy Draper


 * Melanie Kahane


 * Eleanor LeMaire


 * William Pahlmann


 * Michael Greer

Architect Commissions

 * Buckminster Fuller – Century 21, Seattle World's Fair, 1962


 * Wallace K. Harrison – Master plan for Lincoln Center, 1957


 * Skidmore, Owings & Merrill


 * I.M. Pei


 * Raymond Loewy


 * Philip Johnson

Murals
After seeing his book, Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision, ACNE Studios founder, Jonny Johannsen, commissioned several 8.5' high murals for the flagship store in Mayfair, London in 2010. (N.B. – ACNE is an acronym for Ambition to Create Novel Expressions)

Portraits of Rooms
Often the rooms were sketched on the spot. If time and space permitted they would be painted there as well. Otherwise, he would return to his studio to execute the final, working from photographs and from memory.

Introductions to numerous people in the U.S. theatre and film worlds opened doors for Jeremiah. Many of them had him paint portraits of rooms in their residences, notably, stage, screen and TV producer Daniel Melnick, actresses Greta Garbo and Mary Martin, costume designers Edith Head, Gilbert Adrian and Tony Duquette.

Aside from Gielgud's, over the decades Jeremiah painted European interior spaces of photographer/set designer Cecil Beaton, designer David Nightingale Hicks, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (U.K.); artist Pablo Picasso, Baron Philippe de Rothchild, Carlos de Beistegui (France); jewelry designer Elsa Perretti (Spain); fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (Italy). He also painted interpretations of the Nymphenburg Palace, Bavaria.

Stateside, he made drawings or paintings of the residences of Ronald Reagan; socialite Betsy Bloomingdale; fashion designers Carolina Herrera, Bill Blass and James Galanos; Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, fashion executive Reed Krakoff of Coach Inc.; photographer Bruce Weber and his wife, producer Nan Bush.

East Hampton, NY
In 1957 Jeremiah purchased a carriage house on Long Island, NY, at 14 Meadows Way, East Hampton, built by architect Joseph Greenleaf Thorp for the J. Harper Poor family, circa 1917. Constructed around a courtyard, where Goodman installed an in-ground swimming pool; banks of French doors and windows overlook gardens planned by Alden Hopkins, a landscape architect for Colonial Williamsburg. The cast-iron circular staircase, stucco fireplace and slate flooring, though designated by Goodman, feel like a part of the original building. Art, collectibles, antiques and contemporary furniture were arranged to offer various intimate spaces. A studio on the second floor gave him privacy to work if there were guests. Playwright Edward Albee, sculptor Louise Nevelson, actresses Mary Martin and Hermione Gingold were visitors, as well as designer friends Marjorie Shushan, Mark Epstein, Geoffrey Ross, John Dranfield and Harry Heissmann.

Manhattan, NY
His New York City apartment and current studio, overlooks the East River and Queensborough bridge. Occupying a corner unit on a lofty floor of a 1970s vintage skyscraper, with two walls of windows. It has been featured in Architectural Digest twice. Jeremiah considers it best enjoyed in the evening by candlelight.

Quotes About Jeremiah
"In the realm of interior paintings, the work of Jeremiah Goodman stands out as among the most beautiful and influential. ---one of the greatest masters of interior illustration of our time.” – Scott M. Ageloff, IDEC, ASID, AIA (from the catalogue, Inspired Impressions: Interior Paintings by Jeremiah Goodman NYSID 2010)

“He conjures up space by combining a deceptively casual perspective (his choice of viewpoint is impeccable, his drawing always accurate) with plays of light and shadow that delineate form while creating atmosphere." "His black-and-white illustration style shows, … evidence of Japanese brush painting… most striking in the orchestrations of black, white and gray. The perspective in each image is always credible, though the looseness of the brush strokes and spatters of ink or paint imply a sense of spontaneity in their making." – Christopher Finch, Architectural Digest, February, 2002

"We may not always agree on upholstery fabrics in the Decorating department, but we were unanimous about this: Jeremiah is a stone cold fox!" (Kevin Sharkey, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.)

Quotes by Jeremiah
“The 40s were fabulous, you could live on twenty-five dollars a week, perfect for dieting… so I packed my treasured five dollar plaster bust of Apollo, took my talent and eighteen-year-old, 155 lb. body and "greyhounded" to New York City. I just knew that fun, fame and fortune were anxiously waiting to say hello to me there. No problem leaving Buffalo where both sides of the track were wrong! PS. Reality was just a word to me… and still is."

Awards and Collections
Hall of Fame Special Citation Recipient – Interior Design magazine, December, 1987,

Jeremiah Goodman Illustrations are in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY