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Guy Wiggins Madison Square Garden Oil Painting

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD
Guy Wiggins Madison Square Garden Oil Painting
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Title is Winter Weather Madison Square Flatiron Building New York City. 18" by 24" unframed, 32 1/2" by 26 1/2" framed. Guy Arthur Wiggins (1920 - 2020) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut. Guy Wiggins is known for Landscape, still life and street scene painting. Guy A. Wiggins was born and grew up in Lyme, Connecticut, one of the most important centers of American Impressionism when that movement was in its heyday. The son and grandson of famous artists, he shares the distinction of being a third generation painter with members of only two other families in the history of American art: the Peales in the last century and the Wyeths in this. Wiggins began painting as a child at his father's art school in Lyme. Although his first career was in the U. S. Foreign Service, Wiggins painted wherever he was stationed. While on assignment to The State Department in Washington he studied at The Corcoran Gallery Art School and The Sculptors' Studio. He took early retirement from the Foreign Service in 1975 in order to paint professionally and enrolled at The Art Students' League in New York. There he studied under Robert Beverly Hale, Thomas Fogarty and other prominent teachers. Later he took his family to Europe and spent a year painting in the South of France and in Italy. Since then he has also recorded on canvas his impressions of Morocco, Portugal and Turkey. Wiggins is a painterly Realist who works on a wide variety of subjects: robust and well-loved scenes of New York City in the snow or in the spring sunshine, still-life, delicate flower compositions and the street-scenes and landscapes of foreign lands. Cartier regularly reproduces his New York winter scenes for its "Holiday Card Collection" Wiggins slide lecture, "Growing Up with the Impressionists of Old Lyme" has been enthusiastically received by audiences at colleges and art museums along the Eastern Seaboard from Connecticut to Georgia. In New York City, which is home to Wiggins during the winter, he lives in Greenwich Village where his father once had his studio. His summer home is an 18th Century farmhouse near Lambertville, New Jersey. He is a member of the National Arts Club and a third-generation member of the Salmagundi Club, both in New York. Guy A. Wiggins work is in four Connecticut and New Jersey Museums. He has had many one-man and group shows throughout the east and is listed in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in the East. His New York City scenes have been reproduced on Cartier's Christmas cards for two years with enthusiastic acceptance.
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