John E., Costigan NA (American) 1888-1972

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Group of Figures, etching, pencil signed l/r, inscribed l/l, 9" x 14" plate, 12.75" x 17.25" sheet, 16" x 20.5" frame. About the Etching: Very good condition. Not examined out of the frame. About the Artist: Costigan was a largely self-taught artist. He moved from Providence, Rhode Island to New York City as an orphaned teenager in 1904 to work for a commercial poster company. It was that he learned the rudiments of drawing and painting, skills he furtd with informal study at New York's Kit Kat Club, a popular artists' hangout. Costigan achieved national fame as a painter and printmaker in the1920s and 30s. He won numerous prestigious awards and, despite his lack of formal artistic training, was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design. In 1937 the Smithsonian Institution held a one-person exhibition of his graphic works. Famed American printmaker John Taylor Arms praised Costigan as "a brilliant etcher, particularly noted for his interpretation of life on the American farmstead." Today prints by Costigan can be found in private and public collections around the nation, including the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, which owns twenty-two. - from Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, IN. We regret that free shipping applies ONLY to purchases from the 48 contiguous states. All buyers read more

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