New Mexico
Victor Higgins
Date unknown · Watercolor on paper · Modern and Contemporary Art
After studying art in Chicago, Paris, and Munich, Higgins settled in Taos, New Mexico, in 1914. The region’s strong light and alluring landscape served as powerful antidotes to his traditional training, and his watercolors from the 1930s often inventively blend realism and abstraction. In this luminous painting, Higgins portrays an expanse of landscape near Taos as a patchwork of interlocking angular shapes. Broad washes around three edges of the composition suggest an encroaching storm and inflect this otherwise sunny scene with an ominous mood. Like many artists living and working in New Mexico, Higgins collected Southwestern art.
- Artist
- Victor Higgins
- Date
- Date unknown
- Medium
- Watercolor on paper
- Department
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Edwin J. Gamble, 1952
