Robert RiggsMODEL1932
1932
About the Item
- Creator:Robert Riggs (1896 - 1970, American)
- Creation Year:1932
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Portland, ME
- Reference Number:Seller: 137031stDibs: LU36739965252
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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