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1883 Brooklyn, New York - 1962 St. Augustine, Florida. Known for: Urban snowfall and other impressionist landscape painting.
The following information, submitted by I. Bud Hillyer, artist and collector from Palm Springs, California, is from a biography provided in an EBAY offering of work by Guy Wiggins. Hillyer wrote:... Read full biography
The following information, submitted by I. Bud Hillyer, artist and collector from Palm Springs, California, is from a biography provided in an EBAY offering of work by Guy Wiggins. Hillyer wrote: "There are some new things contained about Wiggins I had not known.". Guy Carleton Wiggins (1881-1962)... Read full biography
The following information, submitted by I. Bud Hillyer, artist and collector from Palm Springs, California, is from a biography provided in an EBAY offering of work by Guy Wiggins. Hillyer wrote: "There are some new things contained about Wiggins I had not known.". 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... Read full biography
The following information, submitted by I. Bud Hillyer, artist and collector from Palm Springs, California, is from a biography provided in an EBAY offering of work by Guy Wiggins. Hillyer wrote: "There are some new things contained about Wiggins I had not known.". 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... Read full biography
The following information, submitted by I. Bud Hillyer, artist and collector from Palm Springs, California, is from a biography provided in an EBAY offering of work by Guy Wiggins. Hillyer wrote: "There are some new things contained about Wiggins I had not known.". 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." (Perhaps he was thinking of the way he had sent his son through Loomis... Read full biography