Artist

John E. Costigan

born Providence, RI 1888-died Nyack, NY 1972
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John Edward Costigan, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001413
Also known as
  • John Edward Costigan
  • J. E. Costigan
  • John Costigan
Born
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Died
Nyack, New York, United States
Active in
  • Orangeburg, New York, United States
Nationalities
  • American
Biography

Self-taught painter and printmaker. The locale for Costigan's best-known painting was his own farm in Orangeburg, N.Y.; the most frequent theme was life on the farm.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)