Saturday, January 01, 2011

Circus Art #8


Scan00000010116, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 1/01/2011 05:30:00 AM

2 comments:

Dick Flint said...

This acclaimed lithographic print is "Center Ring" by Robert Riggs, a successful artist of the 1930s who was always fascinated by the circus. He worked for a Philadelphia ad agency and in 1933 when the Ringling show played Philadelphia, he spent the week there making sketches. The result was 15 lithographic prints of many of the major acts including the Concellos, Con Colleano, the Rieffenachs, Felix Adler, as well as of clown alley and the one shown here, which one an award. Today, his limited edition prints of the circus can sell for several thousands of dollars each. He was also acclaimed for his views of boxing matches. Riggs, incidentally, grew up in Decatur, Ill., the same town where circus fans Bob and Tom Parkinson grew up but Riggs was a generation earlier.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

01 January, 2011 16:02
Dick Flint said...

This acclaimed lithographic print is "Center Ring" by Robert Riggs, a successful artist of the 1930s who was always fascinated by the circus. He worked for a Philadelphia ad agency and in 1933 when the Ringling show played Philadelphia, he spent the week there making sketches. The result was 15 lithographic prints of many of the major acts including the Concellos, Con Colleano, the Rieffenachs, Felix Adler, as well as of clown alley and the one shown here, which one an award. Today, his limited edition prints of the circus can sell for several thousands of dollars each. He was also acclaimed for his views of boxing matches. Riggs, incidentally, grew up in Decatur, Ill., the same town where circus fans Bob and Tom Parkinson grew up but Riggs was a generation earlier.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

01 January, 2011 16:03

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