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Robert Riggs was a painter, printmaker, and illustrator well known in the 1930s for his realistic images of the circus, boxing matches, and hospital and psychiatric wards.

Riggs was born in Decatur, Illinois, and began his art studies there at Millikin University. At the age of nineteen, he won a scholarship to the Art Students League, an important New York City art school.

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After two years of study, he moved to Philadelphia to work for the advertising firm A. W. Ayer & Company. During World War I, Riggs served in France with a Red Cross hospital unit. He made numerous sketches of wounded soldiers, and the horrific scenes he witnessed probably informed his later attraction to grotesque and violent subjects for his prints.

While in France, Riggs also studied at the Académie Julian, a private art academy long popular with Americans.

Returning to his pre-war job in Philadelphia, Riggs also did freelance magazine illustration as well as designs for advertisements.

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