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John E. Costigan (1888-1972)
Born 1888 in Orangeburg, New York; died 1972, Providence, Rhode Island. Costigan was a self-taught painter and printmaker.
Exhibited: Salmagundi Club, 1920 (prize), 1923, (prizes), 1928 (prize), 1933 (prize), 1936 (prize); Art Institute of Chicago, 1922 (prize), 1923 (prize), 1924 (prize), 1927 (medal); National Academy of Design, 1920 (prize), 1925 (medal), 1927 (prizes), 1928 (prize); National Arts Club, 1925 (medal), 1936 (medal); Sequi-Centennial Exposition, 1926 (medal); AWCS, 1928 (prize), 1932 (prize), 1933 (prize), 1936 (prize); Grand Central Art Gallery, 1928 (prize); Palm Beach Art Assoxiation (prize); Society of American Etchers, 1933 (prize), 1938 (prize); Corcoran Gallery of Art; Carnegie Institute, 1944-1946; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1944.
Work: Art Institute of Chicago; New York Public Library; Brigham Young University; Rochester Memorial Art Gsllery; Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Montclair Art Museum; Cranbrook Art Academy; Library of Congress; murals, United States Post Office, Girard, Ohio, Rensselaer, Indiana, Stuart West Virginia, American Artist Series, Scribner's Magazine, March 1937.
He was a member of Associate Member of the National Academy of Design, 1926; National Academy of Design, 1928; American Watercolor Society; New York Watercolor Club; Alliance of American Artists; American Society of Animal Printmakers; National Art Club; Philadelphia Sociaety of Etchers; Society of American Etchers.
--Falk, Who Was Who in American Art, 1985
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