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Eugene Higgins

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Eugene Higgins (1874 - 1958) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut, Kansas, Missouri.  Eugene Higgins is known for Etching, social realist and landscape painting, mural.

Eugene Higgins, a painter and etcher, represented with sentimentality the impact of the homeless, depressed and less fortunate people of society. His passionate sympathy for the poor led him to generalize situation and location, painting archetypal situations rather than observed ones.

Although a Social Realist in subject matter, his style was European, much influenced by Honore Daumier, and this Old World quality made his work less popular than that of others such as Robert Henri, who had a more unique style.

Higgins was born the son of an Irish stonecutter and builder in Kansas City, Missouri, 1874, and after the death of his mother, his father moved him as a youngster to Saint Louis, where he was raised.  He briefly attended night classes at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, and also went to work in an architect's office.

In 1897, he went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian, under Jean Paul Laurens, Benjamin Constant a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4147 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

.  askART lists Eugene Higgins in 3 of its research Essays. Eugene Higgins has 32 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about Eugene Higgins

   Publications  Book References:  78
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Eugene Higgins
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review What Modern Looked Like October 2005 Severns, Martha R Yes
78 Book References for Eugene Higgins
Year Author Title Pages Color
2013 Katlan, Alexander The Hartford Salmagundians: A Connecticut Art Society's Painting Exhibition Records 1929-1953 98 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1994 High Museum of Art American Paintings at the High Museum of Art 216 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 495 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Susan Sheehan Inc American Masterworks on Paper 1800-1960 104 No
1988 Wooden, Howard E Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem 212 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab Americans in the Arts 1890-1920 672 No
1985 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 30 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Kopitske, Christine (Editor) American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1982 Marling, Karal Ann Wall-to-Wall America A Cultural History of Post Office Murals 348 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 23 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Maurice Sternberg, Galleries The American Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1979 Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930 96 Yes
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1970 Brown, Milton W American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression 244 No
1970 Cohen, Mildred Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Chapellier Galleries American Art Selections Turn of the Century 95 Yes
1968 Kent, Norman (editor) Drawings by American Artists 127 No
1968 Mattatuck Historical Society The Connecticut Artists Collection 84 No
1966 Connecticut College for Women The Art Colony at Old Lyme 1900-3
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 No
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1964 Read Mullan Gallery Read Mullan Gallery of Western Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1963 Brown, Milton W The Story of the Armory Show
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1961 Dorra, Henri American Muse, The 163 Yes
1960 Rasmusen, Henry Printmaking with Monotype 184 No
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1940 Klug, William L (Introductory Essay) Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1939 Craven, Thomas (editor) A Treasury of American Prints 100 Etchings and Lithographs by Living Artists 210 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1937 Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay) Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1929 Narodny, Ivan American Artists 140 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
Florence Griswold Museum Vonnoh, Fehrer and Higgins Three Artists of Pleasant Valley 7 No
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