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Lot 83:
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Keywords: NO RESERVE, Cityscape Painting, American Impressionism, Urban Landscape, New York City, Snowstorm, Yellow Cabs, American Flag, Oil Painting, Signed Painting, Early 20th Century, Manhattan
Summary:
Guy Carleton Wiggins snowy New York street painting. Twice Signed lower right. Verso with handwritten inscription "Fifth Avenue Blizzard"
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,
Provenance: Estate on 67th Street: Ira Spanierman
Measurement: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.) approx
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