This greeting card set includes eight blank note cards with accompanying envelopes, two each of the following works by Victor Higgins: Untitled (Adobe House with Clouds), White Gate, Untitled (Adobe House with Woman in Red), and Pablita Passes. Cards measure 5" h x 7" l. At fifteen, Victor Higgins defied his parents' wishes and left his native Indiana for Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. Sponsored by ex-mayor and collector Carter Harrison, Higgins spent two and half years studying and traveling in Europe. While in Munich, he associated with fellow art students Walter Ufer and Martin Hennings. The year after his return (1914), Harrison sent him on a painting trip to New Mexico. There Higgins found the strong light, brilliant color, and lure of the land a powerful antidote to the confines of academic training. He joined the Taos Society of Artists in 1917.
