American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945

Mountains and Valleys
Mountains and Valleys
Artist Higgins, Victor
     nationality American
     birth-death 1884-1949
Creation date about 1921
Materials oil on canvas
Dimensions 40 x 43 in. 43 5/8 x 46 3/8 in. (framed)
Location Paine American Modernism Gallery
Credit line Gift of the Harrison Eiteljorg Gallery of Western Art
Accession number 73.104.2
Gallery Label

Higgins exhibits the influence of cubism in his use of geometric shapes enhanced by strong contrasts of light and dark.

The artist was affected by the 1913 New York armory show, where he came in contact with European and American Modernism.


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