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Guy Carleton Wiggins NA (February 23, 1883 – April 25, 1962) was an American impressionist painter. He was the president of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, and a member of the Old Lyme Art Colony. He did many paintings of New York City’s snowy streets, landmarks and towering skyscrapers during winter.(File:FIFTH AVENUE STORM.PNG|thumb|right|Fifth Avenue Storm.)

Early life

Wiggins was born on February 23, 1883, in Brooklyn.NEWS, Old Lyme Artist Dies At Age 79,www.newspapers.com/image/371246194/?terms=%22Guy%2BWiggins%22, November 17, 2018, Hartford Courant, April 27, 1962, 8, Newspapers.com, registration, His father Carleton Wiggins was an accomplished artist who gave his son his first training as a painter. He attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, the Art Students League of New York, and the National Academy of Design. His teachers at the academy were William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Career

Wiggins often painted scenes of New York City, as evident in The Metropolitan Tower (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Washington Square in Winter (Richmond Art Museum, Indiana); Columbia Circle, Winter (National Gallery of Art, Washington); and Riverside Drive (1915).File:Brooklyn Museum - June, Berkshire Hills - Guy C. Wiggins - overall.jpg|thumb|June, Berkshire Hills – Brooklyn MuseumBrooklyn MuseumWiggins painted in an impressionistic style,BOOK, Lowrey, Carol, A Legacy of Art: Paintings and Sculptures by Artist Life Members of the National Arts Club, 2007, National Arts Club, New York, 9780615154992, 227004579, 33,books.google.com/books?id=QkgvGYj34UMC&q=Guy+C.+Wiggins&pg=PA33, as may be seen especially in Berkshire Hills, June (Brooklyn Museum). He traveled New England painting streams, fields and woodlands capturing on canvas the various seasons of the year. He became one of the youngest members of the Old Lyme Art Colony of Old Lyme, Connecticut, and painted alongside his father, Carleton, Childe Hassam, and Frank Vincent DuMond. Wiggins began teaching art in Essex, Connecticut, in 1937.WEB, Guy Wiggins,americanart.si.edu/artist/guy-wiggins-5383, Smithsonian American Art Museum, November 18, 2018, He did a portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and gave it to the White House in 1959.NEWS, Necrology,www.newspapers.com/image/214234517/?terms=%22Guy%2BWiggins%22, November 18, 2018, The Town Talk, April 26, 1962, 20, Newspapers.com, registration, NEWS, Deaths Around the Nation: Guy Wiggins,www.newspapers.com/image/98625111/?terms=%22Guy%2BWiggins%22, November 18, 2018, Detroit Free Press, May 11, 1962, 36, Newspapers.com, registration, Wiggins served as the president of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member of the National Academy of Design, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and the Lyme Art Association. He won the Flagg Prize, the Cooper Prize and the Atheneum Prize from the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; the Harris Medal from the Art Institute of Chicago; the Turnbull Prize and the Isidor Prize from the Salmagundi Club; and the J. Francis Murphy Memorial Prize from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Personal life, death and legacy

Wiggins married first Dorothy JohnsonWEB, Guy Wiggins Obituary,www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/theday/name/guy-wiggins-obituary?id=9963174, Legacy.com, February 7, 2022, and later Dolores Gaxiola.NEWS, Mrs. D.G. Hughes a Bride; Sister of William Gaxton Wed to Guy Wiggins, the Artist,timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/12/24/88325823.html?pageNumber=13, February 7, 2022, The New York Times, December 24, 1945, With Dorothy he had two sons, Carleton Wiggins and Guy Arthur Wiggins, and a daughter, Dorothy Gibson. Wiggins resided in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and wintered in St. Augustine, Florida.NEWS, Guy Wiggins,www.newspapers.com/image/457341482/?terms=%22Guy%2BWiggins%22, November 18, 2018, The San Francisco Examiner, April 26, 1962, 31, Newspapers.com, registration, Wiggins died in 1962 while on vacation in St. Augustine, Florida, aged 80.NEWS, Guy Wiggins,www.newspapers.com/image/456915740/?terms=%22Guy%2BWiggins%22, November 17, 2018, Daily News, New York City, April 26, 1962, 44, Newspapers.com, registration, His body was returned home to Connecticut and he was buried in Old Lyme. His work can be seen in several major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago,WEB, Guy Carleton Wiggins,www.artic.edu/artists/28543/guy-carleton-wiggins, Art Institute of Chicago, November 18, 2018, Brooklyn Museum,WEB, Guy Wiggins,www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/775/objects, Brooklyn Museum, November 18, 2018, and Smithsonian American Art Museum.Wiggins’s son, Guy Arthur Wiggins (1920-2020),WEB,www.legacy.com/obituaries/theday/obituary.aspx%3fn=guy-wiggins&pid=197018981, dead,web.archive.org/web/20201101140749/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theday/obituary.aspx?n=guy-wiggins&pid=197018981, 2020-11-01, Guy Wiggins Obituary (2020) - The Day, was also a painter.NEWS, Farmer, Ann, A Family of Painters Is Having Its Moment,www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/nyregion/the-wiggins-family-of-painters-is-having-a-moment.html?hp, November 18, 2018, The New York Times, June 6, 2011,

In Popular Culture

The painting “Lower Fifth Ave. During The Day” was the subject of a restoration by Julian Baumgartner on the YouTube Channel Baumgartner Restoration.Archived at Ghostarchive{{cbignore}} and the www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M49_lVAHpw&gl=US&hl=en" title="web.archive.org/web/20190214042127www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M49_lVAHpw&gl=US&hl=en">Wayback Machine{{cbignore}}: AV MEDIA,www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M49_lVAHpw, The Conservation of Guy Wiggins - Episode 1: “The Work Before The Work”, YouTube, {{cbignore}} The work was previously believed to be untitled, but during the restoration the true title was found painted on the verso after a layer of canvas from a previous restoration was removed.Archived at Ghostarchive{{cbignore}} and the www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtxeFgmDc9A&list=PLoZ-LEVLUe6b8NamywcV2pai_pqVGn5zs&index=10&t=0s" title="web.archive.org/web/20190714124057www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtxeFgmDc9A&list=PLoZ-LEVLUe6b8NamywcV2pai_pqVGn5zs&index=10&t=0s">Wayback Machine{{cbignore}}: AV MEDIA,www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtxeFgmDc9A, The Conservation of Guy Wiggins - Episode 3: “On Structural Issues”, YouTube, {{cbignore}}The painting “Old Trinity, New York Winter” was the subject of a segment on the PBS program Antiques Roadshow in 2008.{{Citation|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/13/dallas-tx/appraisals/1930-guy-wiggins-oil-painting--200802A36 |title=1930 Guy Wiggins ‘Old Trinity, New York Winter’ Oil“|website=Antiques Roadshow}} The owner said her father had purchased the painting in the late 1960s for $2500. An appraiser suggested the artwork would fetch between $50,000 and $80,000 at auction.

References

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External links

• Official Site Virtual Catalogue Raisonné the Complete Works of Guy C. Wiggins.
• The New York Scene – Rehs Galleries’ exhibition of works by Guy C. Wiggins.
• Wiggins oil painting “Winter at the Plaza” in Swann Galleries Auction catalogue
• Two 1920’s Guy Wiggins exhibition catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries

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