By Guy Wiggins
Located in New York, NY
Guy C. Wiggins (1883 - 1962)
On Dorset Hills, circa 1940
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Framed 31 x 36 inches
Signed lower left: Guy Wiggins; titled on verso: On Dorset Hills
Housed in a Newcomb-Macklin frame
Listed in the Wiggins online catalogue raisonne
Guy Carleton Wiggins is best known for his impressionistic snow scenes of New York in 1920's. Wiggins lived in Old Lyme and Essex where he operated an art school. The Connecticut country-side was conducive to his impressionist technique of plein-air painting and broken brushwork.
Ironically, although his work includes many fine Connecticut landscapes, he is best remembered for some snow scenes of New York City. Like many other American Impressionists, Wiggins had one foot in the city and the other in the country (Vermont Hillside, South Londonderry).
Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, went to England with his family as a boy, received an English grammar school education, and traveled widely abroad. He was the son of a prominent artist, Carleton Wiggins, a painter in the Barbizon style who studied with George Inness and admired Anton Mauve and Dwight Tryon...
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1940s American Impressionist Guy Wiggins Art