William Victor Higgins

William Victor Higgins (June 28, 1884 – August 23, 1949) was an American painter and teacher, born in Shelbyville, Indiana. At the age of fifteen, he moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In Paris he was a pupil of Robert Henri, René Menard and Lucien Simon, and subsequent to he was in Munich he studied following Hans von Hayek. He was an link of the National Academy of Design. Higgins moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1913 and associated the Taos Society of Artists (alongside E. Irving Couse, Joseph Henry Sharp, Oscar E. Berninghaus and others) in 1917. In 1923 he was upon the founding board of the Harwood Foundation afterward Elizabeth (Lucy) Harwood and Bert Phillips.