Snow-Crowned Hills

Arts of the Americas

c. 1920

Guy Carleton Wiggins (American, 1883–1962)

Guy Carleton Wiggins was devoted to the depiction of both rural and urban landscape and he became especially well known for winter scenes. He was the second generation of a family of painters; his father, Carleton Wiggins, was one of the first members of the artists’ colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The younger Wiggins also spent time in Old Lyme, where Snow-Crowned Hills was painted. Although the broken brushstrokes of the composition clearly derive their inspiration from the Impressionists, the unspoiled, uninhabited wintry landscape portrayed is uniquely American.

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Guy Carleton Wiggins
Title: Snow-Crowned Hills
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1920
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom-right corner, on snow, in brown pigment: “Guy Wiggins”.
Dimensions: 84.5 × 100.3 cm (33 1/4 × 39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1924.918

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of The Walter H. Schulze Gallery of American Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1924), 13 (ill.).
R.M.F., “The Walter H Schulze Memorial Gallery of Paintings,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 19, no. 1 (Jan. 1925): 8-9.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 157, cat. 913.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 484.
Campanile Galleries, Guy C. Wiggins (1883–1962): American Impressionist, exh. cat. (Chicago: Campanile Galleries, 1970), 6, cat. 2 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), 127, no. 71 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Walter H. Schulze Gallery of American Paintings, 1924, no cat. no.
Chicago, Campanile Galleries, Guy C. Wiggins (1883–1962): American Impressionist, Sept. 18–Oct. 24, 1970, cat. 2.

Paul (1864–1948) and Ida (born Johl, 1871–1956) Schulze, Chicago, by 1919 [on loan to Art Institute of Chicago from 1919; Institutional Archives, Day Book 9, 72; copy in curatorial object file;]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.

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