Victor Higgins
Evening Sky [Solitude]
Victor Higgins, Evening Sky [Solitude], ca. 1922, oil on canvas, 24 x 27 in. Courtesy of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas.
In 1922, Higgins exhibited Evening Sky (Solitude) and sixteen other paintings at the Amarillo Public Library.
Higgins scholar Dean Porter suggested that the landscape depicted here is an area north of Taos and east of where a bridge now spans the Rio Grande Gorge. In a bold and very Modernist move, Higgins’s composition is four-fifths sky, with most of the landscape in shadow. Only copses of piñon and juniper break up the rolling plain.