Psychopathic Ward
1941 · Lithograph
composition: 14 1/4 x 18 13/16" (36.2 x 47.8cm); sheet: 18 5/16 x 23 7/16" (46.5 x 59.5cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Robert Riggs
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American Prints: 1913�1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
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Manhattan Observed
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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American Prints of the 20th Century
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Three Centuries of American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938
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Robert Riggs was an American artist known for his dynamic figurative drawings and prints, particularly his studies of dancers, athletes, and theatrical performers captured in moments of intense physical movement. Working primarily in charcoal, ink, and lithography during the mid-twentieth century, he developed a distinctive approach to rendering the human body in action, combining gestural immediacy with anatomical precision. His work emerged from a deep engagement with live observation and the formal language of modernist draftsmanship.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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New York, US
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