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Robert Riggs

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Robert Riggs (1896 - 1970) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, Illinois.  Robert Riggs is known for Circus, street and sport scenes-lithography and painting.

Known for his paintings of prize-fighting and circus-genre scenes and lithography of gigantic size compositions, Robert Riggs had a highly successful career as an artist, especially in the 1930s and 40s. His painting, The Brown Bomber, showed the boxing victory of Joe Louis over Max Schmeling.  This is one of the paintings that earned Riggs election to the National Academy of Design in 1946

He was born in Decatur, Illinois and as a young man ran away from home and joined the circus.  He studied at the James Milliken University in Illinois and then trained at the Art Students League in New York, but his study was interrupted by Army service in World War I.

He stayed overseas and attended the Academie Julian in Paris and then returned to the United States where he settled in Philadelphia and worked for N.W. Ayer & Sons, an advertising agency for whom he did numerous illustrations.  He was active in the Germantown Boys Club, where   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1314 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  35
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Robert Riggs
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Artist Musings on Drawings May 2001 Abeles, Sigmund Yes
35 Book References for Robert Riggs
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 Alterman, James M. New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony 612 Yes
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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
2005 Reis, Mary Clare; Lisa N. Peters et all Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960 (Spanierman Gallery, LLC
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2001 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators 452 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1995 Cohn, Jan Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration 298 Yes
1995 Robertson, Bruce Representing America Ken Trevey Collection American Realist Prints
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 No
1991 Gilbert Anne American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide 1991 Yes
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 (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
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1984 Reed, Walt and Roger The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration 355 Yes
1983 Adams, Clinton American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers 228 Yes
1983 Kaplan, Ellen Prints A Collector's Guide 253 No
1982 Philadelphia Museum of Art American Graphics 1860-1940 122 Yes
1981 Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1979 Crawford, Anthony R Posters/World War l & World War ll George C Marshall Research Foundation 128 No
1976 Castelman, Riva American Prints 1913-1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1968 Scott, Martha B. The Artist and the Sportsman (The National Art Museum of Sport)
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1966 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s 272 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1951 Halsey, Ashley Jr Illustrating for the Saturday Evening Post 160 No
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1947 Watson, Ernest W Forty Illustrators and How They Work 0 Yes
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1937 Logan, Josephine Hancock Sanity in Art 127 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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