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Marshall Goodman is one of Virginia's preeminent collectors, scholars, and dealers. He has over fifty years' experience with American decorative arts and has worked with nunerous institutions, collectors and appraisers in evaluating important historical objects in a wide range of materials including silver, textiles, ceramics, furniture, historical documents, and photographs. His particular interest is in Southern painting and portraiture Mr. Goodman collaborated with J. Roderick Moore for a 2007 article published in The Magazine ANTIQUES titled "Painted boxes and miniature chests from Shenandoah County, Virginia: The Stirewalt group." In addition, he has a special background in Virginia historical ceramics and was a co-curator of the seminal exhibit "Stoneware Pottery of Eastern Virginia, 1720-1865" held at the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia in 2005. He was subsequently a co-author of an article with the same title in The Magazine ANTIQUES. In 2005 Mr. Goodman assisted archaeologists from the State of Virginia in the salvage excavation of the Benjamin DuVal stoneware factory (ca. 1811-1817) in Richmond. He was co-author of the article "The Destruction of the Benjamin DuVal Stoneware Manufactory, Richmond, Virginia" published in the journal Ceramics in America. Mr. Goodman is also a co-curator of the stoneware exhibit "From Kaolin to Claymount: Demystifying James River Valley Stoneware" held at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston Salem in 2013. He also co-authored "The Remarkable 19th-Century Stoneware of Virginia's Lower James River Valley" published in Ceramics in America in 2013. |