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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Goodall, Shirley, 1913-1969
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Other form(s) of name
Shirley Goodall Stairs
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Description area
Dates of existence
1913-1969
History
Rosalind Shirley Goodall was a medical illustrator in Montreal who produced many illustrations for McGill University physicians predominantly during the 1930s. She was born in Montreal on 23 December 1913. The daughter of the Dr. James Robert Goodall (1878-1947) clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McGill from 1912-1944 and Beatrice D. Weir Goodall (died 1949), she was a pupil at The Study, a Montreal private girls school, from at least 1924-1930 (and possibly earlier). There, she was a student of Ethel Seath, a painter, art instructor at The Study for over 40 years, and member of the Beaver Hall Group of Women Painters, who exhibited in London, England, in 1925. After her graduation from The Study, Goodall went to Johns Hopkins to study medical illustration. Goodall married John Fitzwilliam Stairs (1913-1999) on 26 December 1939, at which point she retired from illustration. She died in May 1969 at the Homeopathic Hospital where her brother Graydon Goodall was surgeon.