John Edward Costigan

John Edward Costigan NA (February 29, 1888 – August 5, 1972) was an American artist.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Costigan was mainly self-taught. He is known for his strong brush lawsuit and an incorporation in the common person as a subject. He portrays his people as severely rooted in the soil that they work, humble nevertheless dignified and contented. His most well-known mediums are oil and watercolor painting as with ease as etchings and lithographs. The unchangeable that he had worked for closed during the depression and in 1920’s he granted to buy a farm in Orangeburg, New York to paint. His subjects were his wife and his child. In 1928, he became a believer of the National Academy of Design.

Costigan was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the teenage Costigan to New York City and were instrumental in starting him upon a career in the visual arts after he and his four sisters became orphaned. John Edward married sculptor Ida Blessin. Together they had five children.