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Learn MoreFifth Avenue by Guy Carleton Wiggins
- The poetry of New York in winter found its greatest interpreter in Guy Wiggins
- Fifth Avenue is an ode to the city’s wintry charm with waving flags and yellow taxicabs
- The snowy scene looks across the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
- Wiggins was regarded as the last great American Impressionist
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1883-1962 | American
Fifth Avenue
Signed "Guy Wiggins NA" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
The poetry of New York in winter found its greatest interpreter in Guy Wiggins. Regarded as the last great American Impressionist, he had an intuitive command of light and color that infused his canvases with life. Fifth Avenue is an ode to the city’s wintry charm, shown from his elevated view of a bustling 5th. . .
1883-1962 | American
Fifth Avenue
Signed "Guy Wiggins NA" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
The poetry of New York in winter found its greatest interpreter in Guy Wiggins. Regarded as the last great American Impressionist, he had an intuitive command of light and color that infused his canvases with life. Fifth Avenue is an ode to the city’s wintry charm, shown from his elevated view of a bustling 5th Avenue. Snow blankets the street as waving flags and yellow taxicabs introduce playful notes of color around the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. With energetic yet precise brushwork and a romantic palette, the painting reflects the finest qualities of Wiggins’ most sought-after compositions.
Born in New York in 1883, Wiggins was the son of noted Barbizon artist Carleton Wiggins. Under his father's tutelage, Wiggins began painting at an early age and was a frequent visitor to the Old Lyme Art Colony, the first artists' group in the nation to adopt impressionism. It was there that he began to develop his own unique style of impressionism, earning critical acclaim early in his career. By the age of twenty, Wiggins was the youngest artist to have a work in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He earned numerous awards, including membership in the National Academy of Design and the prestigious Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal from the Art Institute of Chicago. He became best known for his iconic wintertime cityscapes, exhibiting a perceptive sensitivity to shifting environmental elements. Today, his works remain just as popular and are represented in important collections worldwide.
Circa 1938
Canvas: 29 3/4" high x 24 1/2" wide (75.57 x 62.23 cm)
Frame: 37 1/2" high x 32 1/4" wide x 2 1/4" deep (95.25 x 81.92 x 5.72 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Florida
Private collection, New York
M.S. Rau, New Orleans

| Maker: | Wiggins, Guy |
| Period: | 1919-Present |
| Origin: | America |
| Type: | Paintings |
| Style: | Impressionism |
| Depth: | 2.25 in. (5.72 cm) |
| Width: | 32.25 in. (81.92 cm) |
| Height: | 37.5 in. (95.25 cm) |
| Canvas Width: | 24.500 in. (62.23 cm) |
| Canvas Height: | 29.750 in. (75.57 cm) |
Wiggins, Guy
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