Oil on board mounted to panel, signed at lower left, presented in a period giltwood frame with gallery plaque affixed at lower center.

Sight size 11 3/8 x 15 1/2 in.; Frame dimensions 19 x 23 in.

Guy Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was the son of Carleton Wiggins, an American painter of the Barbizon style who studied with George Inness. The Wiggins family were permanent residents of the Old Lyme Colony. Guy Wiggins studied with artists in the Old Lyme Colony and remained there for twenty years, studying with artists who were developing a unique style of Impressionism.

Guy Wiggins studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, and the National Academy of Design. He developed a life-long relationship with the National Academy, becoming successful early in his career. At the age of twenty, he was the youngest artist to have a work in the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was awarded prizes from the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Salmagundi Club, and the Art Club of Philadelphia. By 1920 Wiggins settled in Lyme Township while splitting time in New York. He set up the Guy Wiggins Art School and relocated the school to Essex in 1937 forming the Essex Painters Society. Wiggins died in 1962 and is buried in Old Lyme.

Good estate condition, very light retouching visible at the edges under UV light inspection, minor separation at upper left corner of frame.