Guy Carleton Wiggins (American, 1883–1962)
Snow-Crowned Hills
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Guy Carleton Wiggins (American, 1883–1962)c. 1920
Snow-Crowned Hills
Guy Carleton Wiggins (American, 1883–1962) →Post-ImpressionismArts of the Americas20th CenturyImpressionismpaintingamerican arts
Date
c. 1920
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
84.5 × 100.3 cm (33 1/4 × 39 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection
Guy Carleton Wiggins was devoted to the depiction of both rural and urban landscape and he became especially well known for winter scenes. He was the second generation of a family of painters; his father, Carleton Wiggins, was one of the first members of the artists’ colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The younger Wiggins also spent time in Old Lyme, where Snow-Crowned Hills was painted. Although the broken brushstrokes of the composition clearly derive their inspiration from the Impressionists, the unspoiled, uninhabited wintry landscape portrayed is uniquely American.
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