He wrote extensively on American artists, including Edward Hopper, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Raphael Soyer and Reginald Marsh.
He was associated with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City for many years.
[1][2] During his childhood in Nutley, New Jersey,[3] Goodrich was a close friend of Reginald Marsh, who would later become an important painter.
He studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League of New York with Kenneth Hayes Miller from 1913–1915.
In 1916 Goodrich returned to the Art Students League but he gave up his artistic ambitions by 1918.