Eugene Higgins, a painter and etcher, represented with sentimentality the impact of the homeless, depressed, and less fortunate people of society. His passionate sympathy for the poor led him to generalize situation and location, painting archetypal situations rather than observed ones.
Although a Social Realist in subject matter, his style was European, much influenced by Honore Daumier, and this Old World quality made his work less popular than that of others such as Robert Henri, who (showing 500 of 2486 characters). |
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Eugene Higgins is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
New York Armory Show of 1913
Old Lyme Colony Painters
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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