Minnetta Good, born New York City - Untitled - 1936 and 1937 - T-Shirt

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Minnetta Good, born New York City - Untitled - 1936 and 1937 - T-Shirt

This is an untitled lithograph by New York artist Minnetta Good, dated 1936 and 1937, and held in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection.

Visual Elements & Composition

The work is a graphic-arts lithograph, a printmaking medium built on printed tone and drawn line rather than a single painted surface. Its untitled status means the image stands on its own, with no caption directing the viewer. Carried onto a tee, the print keeps that single-image structure, so the composition reads as one complete picture.

Meaning & Symbolism

Good made the work in the mid-1930s, when the Great Depression and federal support for the arts shaped American painting and printmaking. Artists of the period moved between modernism and regionalism, recording the urban and social conditions around them. This piece belongs to that moment and to the New York scene where Good was born in 1895 and worked until her death in 1946.

On the T-Shirt

A lithograph was made to be held and looked at closely, and a tee turns that flat image into something worn against the body and seen at arm's length. The print's quiet, contemplative mood suits a shirt worn through a full day. Wearing it puts a 1930s New York artwork into everyday use, where it reads as a piece of American print history.

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