649. Robert Biggs (American, 1920-1985), “Boating on the Mississippi”, c. 1976; lithograph, 16" x 23", signed. Born in Texas and raised in an orphanage. He was adopted and moved to Arkansas. He served as an Air Force gunner in WWII, and was decorated with the Bronze Star. Biggs studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Art on the GI Bill, with Kenneth Hudson, F.G. Carpenter, Arther Krouse, Philip Guston, and Max Beckmann. Once, in a drunken rage, he burned 150 of his paintings and began a new style, combining a stylized regionalism with a precisionist accuracy to architecture and objects. His first one man show was at the Peoples Art Center located at Grandell Square, in St. Louis. He exhibited at the first “Currents” show at the St. Louis Art Museum with Leon Anderson in 1978. He exhibited in the St. Louis area in the 1950s-70s. 300-500