Homeward Bound
c. 1932
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View on museum website →Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 17.62 × 22.38 cm (6 15/16 × 8 13/16 in.) sheet: 21.91 × 30 cm (8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection
Accession Number
2015.19.534
About the Artist
Eugene Higgins
Eugene Higgins, born Patrick Eugene Higgins in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1874, endured a modest upbringing marked by hardship. The son of an Irish immigrant stonecutter, he lost his mother at age four and relocated with his father to St. Louis boarding houses. There, he attended public schools and night classes at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, finding the academic structure unsatisfying, befo...