The Sleeping Child
Eugene Higgins
c. 1909
Medium
monotype
Dimensions
Image: 367 x 457 mm Sheet: 387 x 491 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.2488
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...