Guy Carleton Wiggins Auction Prices and Value Guide

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Artist
Guy Carleton Wiggins
Source records
1,036
Market update
2026-02-16

Artist context

About Guy Carleton Wiggins

Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883–1962) was an American Impressionist painter best known for atmospheric winter scenes of New York City streets, landmarks, and rising skyscrapers dusted with snow. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the son of landscape painter Carleton Wiggins and grew up in an artistic household. Wiggins studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York. He became associated with the Old Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut, a key center of American Impressionism, and later served as president of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. Elected a National Academician, Wiggins maintained a long exhibition career, showing at the National Academy, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His evocative cityscapes—often depicting Fifth Avenue, Wall Street, and lower Manhattan in falling snow—remain his most recognized work among collectors.

American ImpressionismOil on canvasNew York City snowy winter streetsNew York City landmarks and skyscrapersConnecticut landscape (Old Lyme)

Common works and media

Wiggins's most commonly encountered works are oil-on-canvas cityscapes depicting New York under snow, typically featuring recognizable landmarks such as the Metropolitan Life Tower, Trinity Church, Fifth Avenue, and Wall Street. Rural and coastal Connecticut landscapes in oil also appear frequently, reflecting his connection to the Old Lyme Art Colony. Sizes range from small cabinet paintings to large exhibition-scale canvases. Works on paper, including watercolors and drawings, are less common but do surface at auction. Reproductions and prints exist in the market; original oil paintings carry the primary appraisal interest.

Market and appraisal context

Guy Carleton Wiggins maintains a deep and liquid secondary market with 409 documented auction lots, of which 314 carry realized prices spanning from 1992 to April 2026. The price distribution is wide: the observed range runs from $475 to $206,500, with a median of $15,000, a 25th percentile of $6,000, and a 75th percentile of $35,000. This dispersion reflects a clear subject-matter hierarchy. Snowy New York City scenes with recognized landmarks consistently occupy the upper tier: a Christie's sale of Looking Down Fifth Avenue From The Plaza realized $44,450 in January 2026, Bonhams sold Old Trinity, New York Winter (painted 1930) for $30,000 in April 2026, and Freeman's achieved $37,500 for New York City–Winter, 1944 in December 2025. Mid-range prices ($12,000–$20,000) are typical for smaller or less iconic snow scenes. Connecticut rural landscapes and harbor subjects trade well below city snow scenes, often in the $1,200–$7,000 range. The market has broad house participation: Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams, Heritage Auctions, Freeman's | Hindman, Nadeau's, DuMouchelles, Eldred's, Skinner, and others all appear, indicating healthy regional and national demand. Liquidity remains steady with 23 priced lots in the most recent twelve months and 30 in the prior twelve-month period, though the slight decline may reflect normal market cyclicality rather than softening demand.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Oil on canvas

Value drivers

  1. Snowy New York City scenes are the most sought-after subject and typically command the strongest prices at auction
  2. Provenance linking to the artist's estate, major galleries, or longstanding private collections can materially affect appraised value
  3. Condition, size, and whether the work is signed and dated are standard valuation factors
  4. Large canvas snow scenes with recognized landmarks (e.g., the Metropolitan Life Tower, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue) tend to be more desirable
  5. Subject matter is the single strongest price driver: snowy New York City scenes with recognizable landmarks (Fifth Avenue, Trinity Church, Metropolitan Life Tower, Empire State Building, Washington Square) command a significant premium over Connecticut landscapes and harbor scenes
  6. Canvas size materially affects value; large exhibition-scale works (30+ inches on the longest side) consistently outperform small cabinet paintings of similar subject

Appraisal caveats

  • Over 1,000 auction results exist for this artist, indicating a broad range of quality and value; individual lot results vary widely by subject, size, and condition.
  • Works attributed to the artist should be verified for signature, provenance, and where possible, comparison with documented examples in museum or catalogue-raisonne holdings.
  • Attribution can be complicated by the existence of other painters in the Wiggins family, including his father Carleton Wiggins.
  • The price range spans $475 to $206,500 across 314 priced lots; individual appraisals must be anchored to closely matched comparables rather than the overall range

Evidence

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Data basis

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