Art consumed Phillip R. Goodwin and he sketched constantly as a young boy in Norwich, Connecticut. Like so many other successful illustrators who were child prodigies, he sold his first illustration at eleven years old to Collier’s magazine. Because of Goodwin’s obvious innate talents and early successes, his family sent him to study at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design and later to the Art Students League in New York. Still later, he realized that the best place for him to study was under his idol, Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia (1899-1900), and still later with Pyle in Wilmington (1901-1903). Pyle’s influence upon him was predictable for he learned well his master’s basic tenets of illustration. Not the least of which was Pyle’s teachings that one should travel to those places you would illustrate in order to gain insights and an empathy with the environment. Another Pyle axiom was to paint models in authentic costume, and in both cases, Philip Goodwin was an exemplary student for he followed the rules gleaned from ‘The Father of American Illustration’ religiously. During his period in Wilmington, Goodwin had grown so close to Pyle, and was such an exemplary student, that he was invited to Pyle’s fiftieth birthday party. Well educated in fine art and illustration, Goodwin had an especial love for his subject matter, which was almost exclusively, Western outdoor scenes, cowboys and Indians, wildlife in general, and hunting and fishing, in particular. When he opened a studio in New York City, it seemed a dichotomy of interests. Nethertheless, his talent and perseverance sustained him and soon Goodwin’s illustrations were being published in all the best and most popular magazines, including Everybody’s, Harper’s Monthly and Harper’s Weekly, Outing, Persimmon Hill Magazine, and Scribner’s. His calendars were published by Brown and Bigelow, the nation’s largest calendar publisher, and advertising commissions for firearms companies were plentiful including the two biggest, Winchester Arms and Marlin Firearms Company. Book illustrations included the notable, Call of the Wild by Jack London, and Theodore Roosevelt’s African Game Trails and his career thrived with both critical and popular enthusiasm.