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Sun, Jun 9, 2024 11:00AM EDT
Lot 1311
Walter Biggs (1886-1968) American, Watercolor
Estimate: $800 - $1,600
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| $100 | $25 |
| $250 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,500 | $250 |
| $7,500 | $500 |
| $20,000 | $1,000 |
| $50,000 | $2,500 |
| $100,000 | $5,000 |
| $250,000 | $10,000 |
Walter Biggs (1886-1968) American, Watercolor. Comes with COA. Depicts a tree as the focal point. House and figures in the background.
Overall Size: 13 x 11 in.
Sight Size: 7 x 4 1/2 in.
#1328 #4
Walter J. Biggs enjoyed success as a popular illustrator for most of his career, and then became an accomplished painter later in life. Born in Salem, Virginia in 1886, he attended the New York School of Art (later Parsons The New School for Design) early in the 1900s. His romantic, impressionistic-style works soon began appearing on the covers of major magazines of the period, as well as in books. Biggs won praise for his renderings of the American South, particularly for sympathetic portrayals of African American life. He started working with watercolors in the 1940s, developing a national reputation with competition prizes and exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. He returned to Salem permanently after retiring as an illustrator late in the 1950s. In 1963 he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame and died five years later in Roanoke. In 1986 Roanoke College, which owns a large collection of Biggs’s paintings and sketchbooks, dedicated the Walter Biggs Studio in the Olin Hall Student Art Center.
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