Guy Carleton Wiggins, the son of famed Barbizon School painter Carleton Wiggins, was a prodigious talent who, at age 20, was the youngest artist to have a work in the permanent collection at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Best known for his landscape paintings of New York City’s wintry urban scenes, Wiggins is regarded as one of the finest American Impressionist landscape artists of the 20th century.
Born in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, Wiggins displayed an early talent for drawing and, in 1900, attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering) to study architecture and drawing. However, he shifted his focus to painting, which he studied at the National Academy of Design under teachers Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase.
Recognition for Wiggins’s artistic talent came early in his career. In addition to his work being included at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1913, Wiggins won the prestigious Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1917. He also won several awards from the Art Club of Philadelphia, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Salmagundi Club.
In 1920, Wiggins established a summer home in Old Lyme, Connecticut, where he became part of a group of painters who were developing their own form of Impressionism. Wiggins, however, had already established his own Impressionistic style that was based on French Impressionism and influenced by American Impressionist Childe Hassam.
During the 1930s, Wiggins divided his time between Connecticut and New York, painting Connecticut landscapes and New York street scenes such as his Winter in New York. Although some critics say his pastoral Connecticut landscapes were his best works, his snowy streetscapes set in Manhattan — brightened by pops of color in Wiggins’s depictions of green cars and rust-red building facades — are among the artist's most notable.
In 1937, Wiggins established the Guy Wiggins Art School in Essex, Connecticut. In the following years, he traveled nationally, painting scenes of Montana and Massachusetts as well as creating two paintings of the White House during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration. One of the paintings hung in the Oval Office during Eisenhower’s term and was eventually moved to the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Texas.
Wiggins’s paintings remain part of public and private collections throughout the United States and elsewhere, long after his death in 1962. They are also highly sought-after among collectors of American Impressionist and early 20th-century art.
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Williamsburg VA in Spring
By Guy Carleton Wiggins
Located in Milford, NH
A fine spring scene in historic Williamsburg, Virginia with the Governor’s Palace in the background by American artist Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883-1962). Wiggins was born in Brooklyn,...
Canvas, Oil
$1,176
H 24.02 in W 24.02 in
Eleanor Woolley, Poppies Near Naunton 2, Original Painting, Landscape Art
By Eleanor Woolley
Located in Deddington, GB
Eleanor Woolley Poppies Near Naunton 2 Original Painting Oil Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: H 61cm x W 61cm x D 3.7cm Signed Sold Unframed Ready to Hang (Please note that in situ image...
Canvas, Oil
$2,400
H 14 in W 10 in D 0.5 in
"Old Cypresses by Chapelle Saint Marie" Plein-air painting from North France
By Tina Orsolic Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In this plein air painting, Orsolic Dalessio creates a composition reminiscent of The Hudson River School paintings, but with an impressionistic hand. Along with the studied composit...
Canvas, Oil
$4,500
H 22 in W 28 in
"Bookstore from the Bank" 2017 oil painting, impressionist street scene at night
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air, in Sag Harbor, New York. Situated in the People's United Bank parking lot, Butko looks over to the opposite side of Main Street. Beneath tall, fully bloomed trees, illuminated storefronts glisten after they close up for the day. Victor Butko was born into a long line of artists, and has been mentored in painting since the age of 8. He is currently the youngest artist exhibiting at Thomas Kearns McCarthey Gallery, one of the foremost dealers in the United States for Russian Impressionist art...
Canvas, Oil
$5,550
H 23.6 in W 25.6 in
"Oats and Poppy" Impressionistic plein air landscape of wildflower field
By Mathias Meinel
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Oats and Poppy" is an Impressionist painting of a field of wild poppies and oats. Painted en plein air. Unframed Signed at bottom Artist's statement: Even as a child of 2, I had a...
Canvas, Oil
$1,800
H 15.75 in W 19.5 in D 1.5 in
'Landscape with Figures'; Early 20th Century Oil Painting by Arthur Schneider
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 15.75" x 19.5" x 1.5" oil paint on panel work by Wisconsin-native artist Arthur E. Schneider depicts what appears to be a family frolicking around a field that overlooks a large...
Oil, Panel
$4,000
H 18 in W 24 in
"Village View" - 2016 oil painting of famed historic Hamptons village Sag Harbor
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air, in Sag Harbor, New York, in preparation for the popular 2016 exhibition, the Russian American Painting Alliance. A sunny autumn day, situated on a grassy fork b...
Canvas, Oil
Paul Laurtiz Winter Landscape
By Paul Lauritz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paul Lauritz (Norway / California, 1889-1975) winter landscape circa 1950s Fine original oil painting by listed California artist Paul Lauritz. Canvas dimensions 40" x 30". The fra...
Canvas, Oil
$750
H 33.5 in W 45 in D 3 in
Jan Schaeffer(1923-2018) "Ships in Port" Original Oil Painting c.1930s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jan Schaeffer(1923-2018) "Ships in Port" Original Oil Painting c.1930s This fine original oil on canvas is signed in the lower left corner. Though undat...
Canvas, Oil
$4,137
H 32.68 in W 44.49 in D 1.19 in
Where the Lights Gather - original cityscape impressionism contemporary artwork
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Canvas, Oil
$5,856
H 30.32 in W 20.08 in
Oil painting On Canvas On Panel, Mediterranean View With Sailboat And Cliffs
Located in Gavere, BE
Oil On Canvas On Panel, Mediterranean View With Sailboat And Cliffs ** SOLD WITHOUT FRAME ** Additional information about the work: Title: Mediterranean View Medium: oil on canvas...
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
$1,250
H 29.5 in W 47 in D 3 in
California Desert Landscape w/ Sand Verbena by Elizabeth Hewlett Watkins c.1940s
Located in San Francisco, CA
California Desert Landscape w/ Sand Verbena by Elizabeth Hewlett Watkins c.1940s Beautiful vintage oil painting of California desert sand d...
Canvas, Oil
$475
H 24 in W 27.5 in D 3 in
Forest View of a Village in Normandy by David Harris (American, 20th c.)
By David Harris
Located in San Francisco, CA
Forest View of a Village in Normandy by David Harris (American, 20th c.) A fine original oil painting of Normandy, France by an American artist. The painting is on canvas and measu...
Canvas, Oil