Guy Carleton Wiggins

Guy Carleton Wiggins (1881-1962) 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.

Guy Carleton Wiggins had a long and successful career as an Impressionist artist and teacher in New York and Connecticut, but he once told his son (also an artist named Guy) “painting is a wonderful hobby, but a damned difficult way to make a living.”