Robert Riggs
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There
is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint
portraits this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or
spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. That's easy. To execute a
portrait with a great depth of anatomy and structure takes years of
academic training. In Riggs's time there were teachers who knew how to
pass on this knowledge. He studied at the Art Students League and the
Académie Julian . Today, they are very few and far between. Tempera
mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel - Robert Riggs
was a Gay Artist .
Robert Riggs was a gay artist.. "Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold
Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten
consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected
to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the
permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the
Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress.
Riggs's compositions are "monumental" Walt Reed