Biografie von John Edward COSTIGAN (1888-1972)

Birth place: Providence, RI

Death place: Nyack, NY

Addresses: Orangeburg, NY

Profession: Painter

Studied: self-taught

Exhibited: Corcoran Gal, 1916-45; SC, 1920 (prize), 1923 (prizes), 1928 (prize), 1933 (prize), 1936 (prize); NAD, 1920 (prize), 1925 (med), 1927 (prizes), 1928 (prize); AIC, 1922 (prize), 1923 (prize), 1924 (prize), 1927 (med), 1954 (prize); PAFA, 1923-41; NAC, 1925 (med), 1936 (med), 1954 (gold med), 1961 (purchase); Sesqi-Centenn. Expo 1926 (med); AWCS, 1928 (prize), 1932 (prize), 1933 (prize), 1936 (prize), 1958 (prize); Grand Central Art Gal., 1928 (prize); Palm Beach AA (prize); Soc. Am. Etchers, 1933 (prize), 1938 (prize); LOC, 1942, CI, 1944-46; SAGA; WMAA; 1944, 1946; Ogunquit AC, 1955.

Member: ANA, 1926; NA, 1928; AWCS; NYWCC; SC; All. Artists Am.; Am. Soc. Animal PS; NAC; Guild Am. Painters; Phila. SE; Soc. Am. Etchers; Woodstock AA

Work: MMA; AIC; NYPL; BM; Brigham Young Univ.; Rochester Mem. Art Gal.; LACMA; NOMA; Phillips Gal.; Cranbrook Acad. Art; LOC; Davenport Mun. Art Gal.; Frye MA, Seattle; Utah State Univ.; murals, USPOs, Girard (Ohio), Rensselaer (In.), Stuart (WV); Montclair AM.

Comments: Position: sketch artist, H. Miner Lithographing Co., 22 years. Reproduced in American Artist Series," Scribner's, March 1937.

Sources: WW66; WW47; add'l info. courtesy Woodstock Artists Assoc. (cites death date as 1978)."