Theodore Roosevelt's Cabin Door

This painting depicts five game birds suspended by string and hung upon a door as trophies following a hunt. Other artifacts hang on the door to complete this sportsman iconography: a gun powder horn, leather bag, rifle, hat, and duck caller. Goodwin signed his name to the bottom of the door in a manner that is consistent with the painting's illusionism. Rather than assert the substance of paint, he simulated a carved-in signature engraved into the wooden door. Throughout the picture he has closely observed scrapes, gouges, nicks, and the grain of the weathered wood and reproduced it for maximum tangibility. A warm harmony of browns and tans is distributed pleasingly in the composition, accentuated by the vibrancy of the ducks' purple and green wing feathers.