Guy Carleton Wiggins

1883-1962

Guy Carleton Wiggins

BORN IN

Brooklyn, New York

KNOWN FOR

Urban snowfall and other impressionist landscape painting

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.”

Sold At Lone Star Art Auction

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GUY CARLETON WIGGINS
(1883-1962)

At the Library, New York

oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches
Sold for: $30,000
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GUY CARLETON WIGGINS
(1883-1962)

The Stock Exchange, c. 1950

oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches
Sold for: $21,600
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GUY CARLETON WIGGINS
(1883-1962)

Hansom Cab at the Plaza,
Winter, 1950

oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches
Sold for: $5,500
Guy Carleton Wiggins – Hanson Cab at the Plaza, Christmas
Guy Carleton Wiggins
(1883 – 1962)

Hanson Cab at the Plaza, Christmas

, 1950
oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches
Sold for: $11,400
Guy Carleton Wiggins – Winter at the Plaza
Guy Carleton Wiggins
(1883 – 1962)

Winter at the Plaza

, 1952
oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches
Sold for: $10,200
Guy Carleton Wiggins – The Wall Street District Winter (Old Trinity Church)
Guy Carleton Wiggins
(1883 – 1962)

The Wall Street District Winter (Old Trinity Church)

, 1961
oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches
Sold for: $84,000
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Guy Carleton Wiggins
(1883 – 1962)

Winter 5th Avenue at St. Patrick’s

oil on canvas board
12 x 9 inches
Sold for: $14,400