William Victor Higgins (1884-1949) was an American painter and teacher, born in Shelbyville, Indiana. At the age of fifteen, he moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In Paris, he was a pupil of Robert Henri, René Menard and Lucien Simon, and when he was in Munich he studied with Hans von Hayek. He was an associate of the National Academy of Design.
Higgins moved to Taos, New Mexico, in 1913 and joined the Taos Society of Artists (alongside E. Irving Couse, Joseph Henry Sharp, Oscar E. Berninghaus and others) in 1917. In 1923, he was on the founding board of the Harwood Foundation with Elizabeth (Lucy) Harwood and Bert Phillips.
He married Sara Parsons, daughter of Santa Fe painter Sheldon Parsons, and they had a daughter, Joan. He was later briefly married to Marion Koogler McNay of San Antonio, Texas.
While living in New Mexico, he often painted portraits of Native American women. During the Depression, he was commissioned to paint a mural inside the Taos County Courthouse financed by the PWAP, titled Moises, El Legislador.
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Higgins, Victor (1884-1949) - Taos Valley c.1932-35
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Higgins, Victor (1884-1949) - Spring Rain 1924
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Higgins, Victor (1884-1949) - Pueblo of Taos, before 1927
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Higgins, Victor (1884-1949) - Mountain Forms #2 c.1924-27
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