Robert Riggs

This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Robert Riggs.  The title of this work is: "The Third Round", it was created and printed in 1932, one of a series of Boxing images that Riggs is best known for.  The size of this image is impressive.  The image measures 14 3/8X19 3/8 inches.  Very fine condition, framed, archival materials.  "Robert Riggs's dream at age eleven was to join the traveling carnival troupes that he saw in Decatur and picture in a hundred or so drawings that reveal his precocious talent. After studies at the Art Students League in New York from 1915-1917, he worked as an illustrator for the Philadelphia advertising agency N.W. Ayer and Son. In 1918 he spent time in Paris, where he took courses at the Academie Julian. He produced his first lithograph in 1932, on themes from the popular world of boxing "