Artist

Eugene Higgins

born Kansas City, MO 1874-died New York City 1958
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Eugene Higgins, 1929, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001712
Born
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Died
New York, New York, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Painter and printmaker. Higgins worked in the tradition of Jean-François Millet and Honoré Daumier; he expressed his humanitarian intests in portrayals of the poor and downtrodden.

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)

Works by this artist (13 items)

Eugene Higgins, Hunger under a Bridge, 1912, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Brook, 1983.97
Hunger under a Bridge
Date1912
oil on canvas
Not on view
Eugene Higgins, Untitled, pen and ink, charcoal and pencil, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1975.181
Untitled
pen and ink, charcoal and pencil
Not on view
Eugene Higgins, The Black Cloud, n.d., oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design, 1968.2
The Black Cloud
Daten.d.
oil on canvas
Not on view