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Posted On: February 24, 2021

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Victor Higgins, a key member of Taos, New Mexico Society of Artists, was born into a farming family in Shelbyville, IN. At the age of fifteen, he left home for Chicago where he studied at the Art Institute and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. After studying in Chicago, Higgins travelled to Europe and continued his studies in Paris, France and Munich, Germany. Higgins returned to Chicago, but in 1914 accepted a commission to paint the landscape of Taos, New Mexico which was gaining recognition as the site of a notable artist colony. Higgins was captivated by the colony and the town and decided to stay in Taos. In 1915, he was invited to join the exclusive Taos Society of Artists.


Among the artists of Taos, Higgins had a particularly unique practice. He was dedicated to painting the American West, but he was heavily influenced by the European avant-garde and the cubist art movement. Although Higgins made representational work, it is also clear that his process was a conceptual one. “The trouble with most people is that they see too much with the eye only and not enough with the inner eye, the emotions,” he told an interviewer in 1932. “A painter paints a canvas not because he wants to make a ‘picture’ so much as that he wants to solve a problem… in form, in construction, design if you prefer that term, in color harmonies.”


Victor Higgins, 1919 piece “Rabbit Trackers” is currently on view in our lower level galleries as part of the American Mastery exhibition featuring pieces from our Permanent Collection.


Stop in to see it Thursday through Sunday from 10 AM to 5 PM.

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