Carleton Wiggins


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Carleton Wiggins NA was an American landscape and cattle painter. He was born in Turner, Orange County, New York, and studied in New York at the National Academy of Design and with George Inness, and in Paris, and settled in New York. His landscapes were executed in broad flowing lines, with a rich low-toned color scheme, and often contain cattle, solidly and realistically portrayed.

Biography

He was born in 1848. Wiggins frequented the Old Lyme Art Colony along with his son, painter Guy Carleton Wiggins, and was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1906. A member of the Salmagundi Club New York from 1883 until his death in 1932, he served as its president from 1911 to 1913.
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Paintings

  • "Young Holstein Bull"
  • "Cattle in Pond"
  • "Sheep and Landscape"
  • "Lake and Mountains"
  • "Moonrise on the Lake"
  • "October"
  • "Evening after a Shower"
  • "The Plow Horse"