Jeremiah ─ A Romantic Vision

While most can only imagine the lavish living quarters filled?with fine china, dramatic drapery, and regal furniture that lie?behind the iron-clad gates of the most exclusive addresses in?America, Jeremiah Goodman has had the rare opportunity to?enter and paint his impressions of the residences of the rich?and famous for the past 54 years. Goodman’s expressive?watercolors not only act as an archive of interior design?for the second half of the 20th century, but also provide a?glimpse into the artist’s unique ability to infuse a depiction?of domestic space with a sense of drama and emotion?second only to being there. In addition to making art based?on the interiors, Goodman painted studies for rooms-to-be,?creating the beautiful plans on which the rooms themselves?would be based.

Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision is a 208-page retrospective of?Goodman’s career, with over 80 plates of Goodman’s work,?photos and ephemera from his life, and reflections from?Goodman himself. Over the span of his career, Goodman has?made renderings of the homes of such influential icons as?President Ronald and First Lady Nancy Reagan; legendary?theatre personas Mary Martin, Sir John Gielgud, and Richard?Rodgers; Baron and Baroness Philippe de Rothschild; jewelry?designer Elsa Peretti; Greta Garbo; Cecil Beaton; Betsy?Bloomingdale; the Duchess of Windsor; fashion designers?Elsa Schiaparelli and Bill Blass; Vogue editor-in-chief and?fashion icon Diana Vreeland; interior designers Billy Baldwin?and Mario Buatta; and famed photographer Bruce Weber; in?addition to illustrating rooms for House and Garden, The New?York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and Interior Design,?a publication for which Goodman illustrated each month’s?cover for 15 years. With an introduction by playwright Edward?Albee, Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision offers a rare look at a true?life of grandeur.

Jeremiah Goodman, born in 1922 in Niagra Falls, New?York, has an unwavering passion for architecture, theatre,?design, and interiors. Goodman illustrated buildings and?interiors for the leading personalities, architects, and interior?designers of his day. His work has been collected by such?institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper?Hewitt Museum, and the New Britain Museum of American?Art, and such individuals as Nan Bush and Bruce Weber,?Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, and?Mary Rodgers Guettel.

Edward Albee is internationally recognized as one of?America’s greatest playwrights. The recipient of three?Pulitzer prizes for A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three?Tall Women, Albee is best known for Who’s Afraid of Virginia?Woolf? A member of the Dramatists Guild Council and the?American Academy of Arts and Letters, Albee teaches at?the University of Houston. Both his Manhattan loft and his?Montauk, New York, homes are reflections of his interest in?interior design.