Art for Sale Details

Guy Carleton Wiggins

Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883 - 1962) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut, Florida.  Guy Wiggins is 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: "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 Chaffee School in Windsor with a series of paintings.)

Ironically, although his work includ   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 18083 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 1385 auction lots for Guy Carleton Wiggins (of which 1118 auction records sold and 3 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 3 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 37 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Guy Carleton Wiggins as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Guy Carleton Wiggins in 3 of its research Essays. Guy Carleton Wiggins has 158 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Guy Carleton Wiggins available:    Ernest Lawson,  Johann Berthelsen,  William Trost Richards,  Hermann Ottomar Herzog,  Childe Hassam,  Alfred Thompson Bricher,  Anthony Thieme,  Jane Peterson,  Hayley Lever,  Martha Walter,  Edward Henry Potthast,  Emile Albert Gruppe,  Jasper Francis Cropsey,  Frederick Judd Waugh,  William Merritt Chase,  Emil (Soren Emil) Carlsen,  George Inness,  Albert Bierstadt,  John George Brown,  William Louis Sonntag Sr,  Thomas Moran,  Edward Willis Redfield,  Walter Launt Palmer,  Charles Courtney Curran