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Roses in a Green Vase

Robert Gwelo Goodman

1871 – 1939

Artwork Details

Artist          Robert Gwelo Goodman 
Title            Roses in a Green Vase
Year            1988
Medium      Oil on canvas (65 x 63 cm)

About the Artist

Robert Gwelo Goodman (1871–1939) was an English-born South African painter and architectural designer, born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. He moved to the Cape with his family in 1886, took evening art classes with JS Morland, and trained at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1895. After working in Britain and travelling in India and South Africa, he settled permanently in Cape Town in 1915. Goodman became known for landscapes, Cape Dutch architecture, interiors and flower studies. He received a gold medal for pastel drawings at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

About this Artwork

Roses in a Green Vase is an example of Goodman’s close observation, material presence and the symbolic potential of everyday objects. Goodman frequently painted flowers, gardens and cultivated landscapes, bringing a refined sense of atmosphere to his subjects. Here, the contrast between the vibrant roses and the deep green vase creates invites close attention to the changing effects of light in the painting. His still life paintings are not merely decorative studies of flowers. They reveal an interest in beauty, domestic interiors, collecting culture. They capture a refined vision of everyday life that appealed to collectors then and continues to do so today.