American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945

Indian Girl with Parrot and Hoop
Indian Girl with Parrot and Hoop
Artist Higgins, Victor
     nationality American
     birth-death 1884-1949
Creation date about 1920
Materials oil on canvas
Dimensions 40 x 43 in. 47 x 50 x 3 1/2 in. (framed)
Location American Scene Gallery
Credit line Gift in memory of John P. Frenzel Sr. by his heirs
Accession number 73.105.8
Gallery Label

This canvas, with its intricate linear construction, exhibits the artist's dramatic use of brilliant color.

Pueblo people used parrots as a source of feathers to decorate ceremonial objects.

Indiana-born Higgins gained his fame as a Western artist painting in Taos, New Mexico.


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