Child with Goats

John Costigan

Child with Goats, Prints by John Costigan
  • Costigan Child with Goats
  • Costigan lithograph
  • lithograph
Marked Down $285.00
Gallery Price $450.00
Title
Child with Goats
Artist
John Costigan
Medium
Lithograph
Edition
Total edition was 147
Image size
12 1/8" height X 17" width
Signed
"J.E. Costigan N.A." in graphite in lower right margin
Date of creation
1939
Condition
Excellent, as appeared matted
Provenance
CNC
Mat size
19 3/8" height X 23 5/8" width (archival window mat)
About The Child with Goats

Child with Goats was chosen The Annual Print for 1939-1940 by the Albany Print Club.

About John Costigan
(1888-1972) "A native of Providence, Rhode Island, John Costigan was a skilled landscape and figure painter who disdained portraits because "the subjects want flattering pictures." 

He was orphaned and raised in New York by his aunt and uncle, the parents of songwriter, George M. Cohan.  Mainly self-taught, Costigan studied briefly at the Art Students League and worked as a lithographer of theater posters.  From that job he learned the printing processes that he later used in his many etchings.  He began making his name in the fine arts in 1920, and throughout the decade, reaped numerous important prizes for his oils, watercolors and prints.

He served in the infantry in World War I and supported himself during the Depression with magazine illustration.  For about a year during World War II, to remain financially solvent, he worked the night shift as a machine operator in a defense plant while continuing to paint and etch by day. 

In the late 1960s, he enjoyed a revival of interest in his fine arts talents when more than 50 pieces were borrowed from museums and private collections to be toured nationally in a Smithsonian-sponsored Costigan retrospective."  Taken from AskArt.com partially sourced from Dan Costigan, the artist's son.

Costigan was a member of the Society of American Etchers, the National Academy of Design, the Philadelphia Society of Etchers, the New York Water Color Club, the Salamagundi Club, the American Water Color Society, the Allied Artists of America and the National Arts Club.
Cultures

USA

Medium

Prints

Subject

Animals

Keywords

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