Caroline Vaughan Goodman

Artist Biography

I was born October 14, 1948 in Jackson, MS, only child of John Clements Vaughan and Jessie Neal Vaughan. My graduation from Jackson’s Murrah High School in 1966 was followed by my receipt of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alabama in 1970.

Upon graduation I began teaching art at The American School Foundation in Mexico City. In 1970 I enrolled in Auburn University, from which I received my Masters of Art Education. At the death of my father in 1976, I began operating Vaughan & Co headquartered in Jackson, MS.

Running Vaughan & Co as its CEO was to be my career for the next twenty five years. For a time, while CEO at Vaughan & Co, I opened Vaughan-Goodman Fine Art Gallery in Jackson specializing in American painters from 19th and 20th Centuries.

In 1997 I moved to Washington, D.C. where I studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art, at the same time, took classes at the Arts Student League of Alexandria, VA.

From 2001- 2005 I lived in New York City where I studied at The Art Student’s League of New York. In 2006 won first place in “Painting Roussillon”, Roussillon, France. In 2005 a solo show at The Cedars, Jackson, Ms.

I moved to Philadelphia in 2006 where I studied at Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. I won Best in Show at the Philadelphia Sketch Club show, “The Art of the Flower”. I was represented by Fisher Gallery in Jackson, MS. And during that representation was a participant in a four-person show. 2017-2018, I was a student Studio Incamminati ( a Philadelphia atelier).

Most recently in 2021 I participated in a zoom exhibit at Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.