Robert Riggs Art
Known for his scenes of prize-fighting and circus-genre, Robert Riggs had a highly successful career as an artist, especially in the ‘30s 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 the First World War. He attended the Académie 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.
1930s Robert Riggs Art
Lithograph
1950s Academic Robert Riggs Art
Varnish, Pigment
1930s American Modern Robert Riggs Art
Paper, Watercolor
1950s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Mixed Media
1940s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Oil
1940s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Tempera
1940s Realist Robert Riggs Art
Lithograph
1940s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Tempera
1940s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Tempera
1940s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Tempera
20th Century Robert Riggs Art
Oil
1950s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Graphite, Mixed Media
1930s Realist Robert Riggs Art
Archival Paper, Charcoal
1930s Vintage Robert Riggs Art
Paper
1940s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Oil
1930s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Oil
1930s American Vintage Robert Riggs Art
Paper
1940s Academic Robert Riggs Art
Tempera
1940s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Tempera
1940s Robert Riggs Art
Oil, Paper
20th Century Other Art Style Robert Riggs Art
Oil, Panel
1950s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Linen, Oil
1940s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Oil, Board
19th Century Academic Robert Riggs Art
Canvas, Paper, Oil
2010s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Oil
2010s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Oil
Early 20th Century Academic Robert Riggs Art
Oil, Canvas
Mid-19th Century English School Robert Riggs Art
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
1890s Romantic Robert Riggs Art
Paper, Watercolor
1940s Modern Robert Riggs Art
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
2010s American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Academic Robert Riggs Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century American Realist Robert Riggs Art
Oil, Canvas