Guy Carleton Wiggins
(American, 1883-1962)
Silvery Days, November, 1931
oil on canvas
signed Guy Wiggins (lower right); signed, dated, and titled (verso)
25 1/4 x 30 inches.

Provenance:
Sold: Skinner, Marlborough, March 10, 2000, Lot 324
Sold: Christie's East, New York, June 13, 2001, Lot 147
ACA Galleries, New York (label verso)
Joan Whalen Fine Art, New York (label verso)

Exhibited:
New York, The Salmagundi Club Celebrates Three Generations of Salmagundi Painters: J. Carleton Wiggins (1848-1932), Guy C. Wiggins (1883-1962), Guy A. Wiggins (1920-), June 12 - July 1, 2011, p. 15, fig. 18, illus.

Literature:
Anne Cohen DePietro, "Three Generations of Wiggins Art," Antiques & Fine Art, Summer 2011, p. 154, fig. 5, illus.

Lot note:
Like his father, J. Carleton Wiggins, Guy C. Wiggins assumed an active role in the Old Lyme colony, purchasing a farm in Lyme in 1920. Although he continued to maintain a base of operations in New York, he summered in Connecticut and produced numerous paintings of rural subjects, including Silvery Days, November, 1931. Painted with his characteristic broken brushstroke, the present light-filled canvas particularly acknowledges the influence of John Twachtman, as well as other American Impressionists working in the Old Lyme area.

Framed: 33 x 37 1/2 inches.