Robert Goodnough is an important abstract expressionist painter. Although he never achieved the commercial success of his contemporaries - Pollock, Motherwell, Kline, Baziotes- he is recognized as significant in the art world and his works are part of major museum collections such as the Metroplolitan Museum of Art. Robert Goodnough, a painter whose stylistic evolution from vibrant, Cubist-inspired abstractions to Color Field canvases made him one of the least definable members of the second-generation Abstract Expressionists. In a career that lasted more than half a century, Mr. Goodnough (pronounced GOOD-now) eluded the neat categories that art critics relied on to codify the work of the Abstract Expressionists. He moved among the second-generation members of the school but at the same time stood apart, and his work kinetic, calligraphic dashes of primary colors in his early career, and subtle pastels beginning in the 1970s often flirted with figuration