Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main Street Hartford Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1950.729
Date:
1940
Notes:
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 414-415.
Summary:
William Goodwin is shown seated at a table, working on a manuscript for one of his books, "The Truth about Leif Erickson and the Greenland Voyage to New England" (1940). Beneath the manuscript is an old map and to the left is a model of a Viking ship.