April 17, 2024
EUGENE HIGGINS 1874-1958 TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS, one oil and one watercolor
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EUGENE HIGGINS (1874-1958) Two original paintings, one is oil on canvas board of a man in the wilderness with a rabbit, and the other is a watercolor titled "Desolation, The Beggar." Oil painting size: 10.5 inches tall by 8.5 inches wide. Overall frame size: 19 inches tall by 17 inches wide. Watercolor painting size: 7.5 inches tall by 5.25 inches wide. Overall frame size: 15.75 inches tall by 13.75 inches wide. The watercolor has a gallery label from the Goldfield Galleries in Los Angeles. Goldfield Galleries was an important dealer in early American paintings and is listed in the Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog. CONDITION: Very good condition, some minor scratches on the frames, nicely framed and ready to hang and exhibit. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: Eugene Higgins was a New York painter/etcher in the European style of social realism very much influenced by Honore Daumier and Jean-François Millet. In 1897, he went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian, under Jean Paul Laurens, Benjamin Constant and Jean Leon Gerome, where he also learned the art of etching. He settled in New York and spent summers in Connecticut where he was a member of the Lyme Art Association. Higgins was a member of the National Academy of Design and exhibited there every year from 1921 to 1950 and also exhibited at the Pennsylvania
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