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Robert Riggs
Grizzly Adams, Grizzly bear attacks Frontiersman

1946

About the Item

There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait of a man and bear 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. Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist . Unframed - Graphite and Scratchwork with razor blade and ink on litho paper Initialed lower right " R "
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