George Frank Higgins (Born 1850) A fine landscape of a forest interior with figures by American artist George Frank Higgins (b.1850). Higgins was a Massachusetts artist, living in Pepperell and Boston. He painted in both oils and watercolors throughout New England, New York's Adirondack Mountains, and Florida. Higgins paintings were exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum as early as 1859, and his painting "On the Androscoggin" was exhibited there in 1861.and exhibited at the Boston Art Club during the years 1873 to 1891.He is known to have painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, as did many New England artists of his day. Oil on canvas, signed lower right, and housed in a period gilt gessoed frame. Dimensions: 22 â…›" H x 16" W, actual; 29 ½" H x 23 ½" W, framed.This painting came out of a private collection in Amherst, NH where it was purportedly also exhibited at the Boston Art Club.

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