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Light of the Morning - 1922
Guy C. Wiggins, American, (February 23, 1883–April 25, 1962)
Guy C. Wiggins had a long and successful career as an Impressionist artist and teacher in New York and in Connecticut, but he once told his son (also an artist named Guy) that “painting is a wonderful hobby, but a damned difficult way to make a living.” Ironically, although his work includes many fine Connecticut landscapes, he is best remembered for some snow scenes of New York City. Like many other American Impressionists, Wiggins had one foot in the city and the other in the country.
Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, went to England with his family as a boy, received an English grammar school education, and traveled widely abroad. He was the son of a prominent artist, Carleton Wiggins, a painter in the Barbizon style who studied with George Innes and admired Anton Mauve and Dwight Tryon. The father and his family had been early and regular visitors to the Old Lyme colony, and the elder artist had settled in Lyme permanently by 1915, where he was active in the Lyme Art Association and in the social life of the colony. Carleton Wiggins’ palette had brightened under the influence of Old Lyme Impressionism, but in general, his work remained tonal and his subjects were truly pastoral, often of sheep in a meadow. The son, by contrast, became strongly attracted to Impressionism and stayed with it long after it was considered outmoded. Eventually in 1920, he and his family also settled in Lyme. Some twenty years later he relocated to Essex, Connecticut.
For a time Wiggins had some serious training as a draftsman, for he studied architecture at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, perhaps to avoid competing with his father as an artist. His own talent had manifested itself early and stunningly. He had been only eight years old when New York critics publicly praised some watercolors done in France and Holland. Soon his interest in art exceeded that in architecture, and he studied at the National Academy of Design, first under William Merrit Chase and later under Robert Henri.
Wiggins quickly won recognition. By the time he was twenty he had work in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design in 1919. Awards came steadily, such as the prestigious Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1917. His prize list is long.
Wiggins was especially busy in the years before World War I, working on commissions from New York patrons for scenes painted on location in England, but found time to be at Old Lyme and exhibit there, and he became involved as well with the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, established in 1910. He also belonged to the New haven Paint and Clay Club.
Wiggins decided to make his home on an old farm in Hamburg Cove, a picturesque area in Lyme township. He still spent time in New York, and most of his New York snow scenes probably date from the early 1920s. Connecticut landscapes and New York snow scenes are about equal in number in his work, and comprise most of it. Some say the Connecticut landscapes are his best work.
In 1930 Wiggins, though he still listed a winter New York address in the American Art Annual, was advertising the “Guy Wiggins Art School: New Haven (winter): Lyme (summer).” Hartford artist James Goodwin McManus often taught the summer classes with him at Hamburg Cove.
In 1937, at the age of fifty-four, Wiggins resettled in Essex, Connecticut and moved his art school there year-round. He invited for his students’ benefit such guests as George Luks, Bruce Crane, Eugene Higgins and John Noble. He formed the Essex Painters Society. In Essex he is reputed to have lived with his second wife in a “beach wagon.” He died while on vacation in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1962 and is buried in Old Lyme. People who knew him still talk about him as “the ebullient Wiggins.” His artistic reputation surpasses both that of his father and son.
The Baxter Collection: Selections from the Matthew A. Baxter Bequest
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When Trustee Matthew “Andy” Baxter passed away in February 2022, his estate plans included a gift of Lyme School artworks to the Museum. The current installation of selected examples from his bequest of twenty artworks celebrates a cherished friend and supporter of the Museum, whose generosity has now enhanced the permanent collection.
Andy loved the Lyme landscape, an affection reflected in his collection’s emphasis on local scenes. Examples by artist friends Matilda Browne and George Bruestle depict scenes along Joshuatown Road. A small panel by Bruestle shows the view not far up Joshuatown Road, looking across hazy pastures and fields toward Hamburg Cove. Oils by William S. Robinson, Allen Talcott, and Guy C. Wiggins capture changing light, foliage, and weather—elements that attracted artists to the Lyme region at all seasons.
While the artists included in Baxter’s bequest have ties to Connecticut, not all are represented by paintings made in this area. Will Howe Foote hated New England’s cold weather and left his Old Lyme home for warmer destinations he depicted in paintings like the vibrant Water’s Edge, Bermuda. Carl Wuermer, who spent time in Connecticut as well as around the art colony in Woodstock, New York, is represented by a large but delicate snow scene.
Over the years, Andy demonstrated enthusiasm for the Museum’s exhibition program and even lent a prized painting by Matilda Browne to our 2017 survey of her work. Andy developed an affection for the work of Henry C. White (1861–1952) following the Museum’s 2009 exhibition of the pastels the artist made during nearly daily sessions drawing outdoors. While works on paper could not be included in this current selection due to light levels, look for those gifts in future exhibitions, along with examples by Bruce Crane, James Daugherty, Childe Hassam, and J. Alden Weir.
This exhibition is on view in the Marshfield House.
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Robert and Nancy Krieble Gallery
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Beyond showcasing the current exhibitions, the Gallery houses The Shop, restrooms, the Visitor Lounge where an introductory video can be seen, and Café Flo. It leads to Marshfield, a Colonial Revival house where many of our lectures and events are held.
Exhibitions in the Krieble Gallery change three to four times each year. From collaborating with outstanding institutions such as the Fenimore Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Parrish Art Museum to exhibitions such as The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans based on new research by our curators, there is always something on view to delight and inspire. Looking with little ones? Families can pick up Can You Find Me? Cards in the gallery area and search for details in the paintings featured in the exhibition.
The Florence Griswold Museum opened the Robert and Nancy Krieble Gallery in 2002. Designed by Centerbrook Architects, recipient of the 1998 AIA Firm of the Year Award, the gallery accommodates exhibition space, collection storage, visitor amenities and the museum shop. Overlooking the Lieutenant River, near where many of Miss Florence’s boarders set up their easels and painted the marshy coastline, this modern facility draws upon the Museum’s unique history and setting.
Visitors enter under a rippling aluminum canopy, which echoes the tidal river just beyond. Flowering vines scaling stainless steel arbors provide verdant contrast to the smooth white building and pay homage to Miss Florence’s lush gardens. Recognizing the importance of light to the Impressionist painters, the curvilinear connecting walls reflect sunlight, cast shadows, and create an airy, welcoming effect. Inside, specially designed skylights allow visitors to experience the artwork in an ambient natural light.
This is picture from move to Ky to work @ Geek Squad City
This is a set from my move to GSC in June 2009
Move It! invites guests to experience the world of transportation and manufacturing, with a gallery full of colorful hands-on exhibits that chug, whiz, whirl, pop and zing!
If you come in the front door of the new store and look to the left, this is what you will see. Notice all the books in the back? We ran out of shelves!
working on my night photography... still have A LOT to learn!
EF-S18-55mm lens, f/6.3, 10 sec exposure, ISO 100
This series are photographs taken while discovering this magnificent 'bush' Capital of ours and the surrounding region.
I moved here to live at the end of May 2014 and this grouping were taken in March 2015 on a little Monday drive down the coast. Bateman's Bay is Canberra's 'coast'... about a 2 hour drive from here and we continued on about another 50km south from there, taking in some beautiful beaches and resulting in me finally being able to get some great shots of kangaroos (and wallabies). It is such a beautiful part of the world and I haven't been here for a very, very long time, so it was nice to see it again... with fresh eyes.
There are so many areas of natural beauty in Canberra, it's certainly worth a visit!
The reason they are linked to my pinch river profile is because they will inevitably feed into my work at some stage in some way or another, but for now can just be enjoyed as images of the area that captured my attention and inspired my creativity.
For details of my work and to purchase my products please visit my website: www(dot)pinchriver(dot)com(dot)au
Hundreds of new students moved into their respective dorm rooms Saturday with the help of dozens of residential advisors and Pomona staff members. With most new students moved in by noon, families shared a meal at Frank Dining Hall before students met with members of the Orientation Team, their resident advisors or their sponsors to make first connections with the Pomona community. The Class of 2029 took a class photo on the steps of Carnegie Hall in the afternoon, then did the traditional Through the Gates with President G. Gabrielle Starr, entering through the College gates for the first time.
NOVEMBER REIGN opening last night at SUBV. My paintings will be up fpr the whole month so come on down! Photo by Natalie Reis www.flickr.com/photos/38666555@N00/