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Robert RiggsTribesmen with HeaddressesCirca 1950 - 1955
Circa 1950 - 1955
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Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist
Collection of Phillip Desind
Freeman's Auctions
Signed lower right and on verso
Work is framed
- Creator:Robert Riggs (1896 - 1970, American)
- Creation Year:Circa 1950 - 1955
- Dimensions:Height: 21.25 in (53.98 cm)Width: 17.25 in (43.82 cm)
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- Condition:Good. There are a few frame abrasions on the extreme edges of the work. Otherwise the work in is excellent condition with the colors rich and saturated. .
- Gallery Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38538128312
Robert Riggs
Known for his scenes of prize-fighting and circus-genre, Robert Riggs had a highly successful career as an artist, especially in the ‘30s and ‘40s. His painting, The Brown Bomber, showed the boxing victory of Joe Louis over Max Schmeling. This is one of the paintings that earned Riggs election to the National Academy of Design in 1946. He was born in Decatur, Illinois, and as a young man ran away from home and joined the circus. He studied at the James Milliken University in Illinois and then trained at the Art Students League in New York, but his study was interrupted by Army service in the First World War. He attended the Académie Julian in Paris and then returned to the United States where he settled in Philadelphia and worked for N. W. Ayer & Sons, an advertising agency for whom he did numerous illustrations.
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