Low Hanging Clouds

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VICTOR WILLIAM HIGGINS (1884-1949)
Low Hanging Clouds
signed 'Victor Higgins-' (lower right)
watercolor and charcoal on paper
18 x 21 ¾ in. (45.7 x 55.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1929-31.

Provenance

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Harrison Eiteljorg, Indianapolis, Indiana, acquired from the above, 1973.

Literature

D.A. Porter, Victor Higgins: An American Master, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1991, pp. 155, 156-57, no. 170, illustrated.

Exhibited

Notre Dame, Indiana, University of Notre Dame; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Victor Higgins: An Indiana Artist Working in Taos, New Mexico, October 26, 1975-March 30, 1976, pp. 16-17, 86, no. 60, illustrated.
Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum, Painters in Taos, The Formative Years: The Harrison Eiteljorg Collection, 1980, pl. 8, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

According to Dean A. Porter, the present work belongs to a group of "watercolors dating from the late 1920s. Characterized by their close relationship to nature, they reveal an artist who tended to be very specific about what is included on his sheet. He paid particular attention to the feathery softness of spruce, the textured surfaces of adobe...The moods of nature dominate these watercolors. Dark, moisture-laden clouds envelop and threaten mountains whose durable surfaces seem impervious to the acts of nature." (Victor Higgins: An American Master, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1991, p. 155)

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