Virtual Catalogue Raisonné

Union Square, Winter, c. 1940

GW0025

Union Square Winter

Date of Work: Circa 1940

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 25x30

Provenance: Private collection, Dallas, Texas; with Heritage Auction Gallery, Dallas, Texas, auction date November 20-21, 2008 lot #63153

Notes: "Union Square Winter" by Guy Carleton Wiggins, was painted circa 1940. It is signed lower left Guy C. Wiggins, NA. Also, signed and title on verso. The painting is in perfect condition with no restoration. Accompanied with a letter from Guy A Wiggins. At the age of twenty, Guy Carleton Wiggins was the youngest artist to be represented in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Guy Wiggins was born in Brooklyn and continued his father Carleton Wiggins's legacy of landscape painting. Unlike his father, however, Guy Wiggins studied with artists in the Old Lyme Colony who were developing their own style of Impressionism, fusing the French tradition with emerging American techniques. Guy Wiggins continued to paint in the Impressionist style even after the movement was eclipsed by Realism. Union Square, Winter is a choice example of the artist's trademark scenes of New York in near blizzard conditions.