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An exhibition of Good's work, titled "State of Nature: Picturing the Silent Forest", was held at Puke Ariki, the renamed New Plymouth Museum, from April to November 2023. It was the first time that many of her paintings had been publicly shown. A member of the Good family, Sarah Good, executed some
113:. In her later years, her sight declined, and this was attributed to the strain of her painting work. She died on 15 December 1950 at New Plymouth Hospital, at the age of 90. At the time of her death, an exhibition of her works was on display at the New Plymouth Museum. 101:
and became deaf. Taught by her father, she took up painting. Good executed many artworks of native flowers and fungi that she collected from the bush in Ōeo, where she lived with her parents, and later in
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region of New Zealand in 1860. Her father, Captain Thomas Good, was an early settler in the area. At the age of 17, she contracted
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complementary artworks for display alongside her relative's paintings.
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The Good family homestead at Ōeo, where Fanny Good spent her childhood
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In February 1935, Good donated over 200 of her paintings to the
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colonial New Zealand
Omata
Taranaki
measles
Hāwera
New Plymouth Museum

"Fanny Bertha Good"


"State of Nature – Picturing the Silent Forest"
"Floral Beauty in Oils"
"Death of Artist: Miss Fanny Bertha Good"
"A Family Connection Through Flowers Results in a Good Exhibition at Puke Ariki"
Untitled Painting in Puke Ariki by Fanny Good
Categories
1860 births
1950 deaths
People from Taranaki
People from Hāwera
19th-century New Zealand painters
20th-century New Zealand painters
19th-century New Zealand women artists
20th-century New Zealand women artists
New Zealand women painters
New Zealand botanical illustrators
19th-century women painters

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