Background
Carleton Wiggins, the son of Guy Carleton and Adelaide (Ludlum) Wiggins, was born on March 4, 1848 at Turner, Orange County, N. Y.
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Carleton Wiggins
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He was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y. , and studied art at the National Academy of Design (1870) and under George Inness.
Career
He exhibited his first picture at the National Academy in 1870. After a year in France (1880 - 81) he took a studio in New York. His home was in Brooklyn, but he had a summer home at Old Lyme, Connecticut, where he found many of his best subjects. He was a charter member of the Lyme Art Association. From 1894 onward he was the recipient of many honors and awards; he was elected an Academician in 1906. According to Samuel Isham, Wiggins' work "will stand in any company of his contemporaries"; the same critic alludes to "the gravity of Wiggins, the broad sweeping lines of whose landscapes call up vague memories of men like old Crome or some of their Dutch prototypes". Wiggins died at Old Lyme, Connecticut.
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He was the recipient of many honors and awards. Among his pictures in public collections and galleries are "A Young Holstein Bull, " in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; "The Plow Horse, " in the Lotos Club, New York; "The Wanderers, " in the Hamilton Club, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; and "Evening after a Shower" and "The Pasture Lot, " in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. Other well-known pictures are "On the Road" (1879), "September Day" (1880), "Hillside near Fontainebleau" (1882), "October Morning" (1883), "Gathering Seaweed, " "September Harvest" (1884), "Summer Morning" (1885), "Three-year-old Heifer, " and "Landscape near Meudon" (1886).
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On October 19, 1872, he was married to Mary Clucas of Brooklyn, by whom he had two sons and two daughters.
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American