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Birth
1896 (Decatur, Illinois)
Death
1970 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania
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circus, street and sport scenes-lithography and painting
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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
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was born in Decatur, Illinois and as a young man ran away from home and
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