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EUGENE HIGGINS (1874-1958)
Revolution. Charcoal and pastel on paper. 381x610 mm;15x24 inches. Signed in charcoal, lower center edge. Circa late 1930s.
Provenance: Clayton-Liberatore Gallery, New York, with label on the frame back; private collection, New York.
Exhibited: Clayton-Liberatore Gallery, NY, 1971, Eugene Higgins: Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Etchings illus. plate 6 in the accompanying catalog.
Eugene Higgins was born and raised in Missouri and studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts before continuing his studies in Paris at l'École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. In Paris, his painting was greatly influenced by the realist masters Jean-François Millet and Honoré Daumier. After returning to the United States, Higgins set up his studio in New York. He worked in a social realist style, while depicting sympathetic portrayals of the downtrodden. In the late 1930s and early 1940s he was engaged by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts to paint murals in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee and Shawano, Wisconsin.
