Godel An American Vision

Whittredge’s work can be found in the collections of The Met- ropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Worcester Museum of Art, Massachusetts; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washing- ton, D.C.; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth; and the Denver Art Museum. Guy C. Wiggins (1883–1962) The son of the landscape painter CarletonWiggins, Guy Carleton Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, and made his first ar- tistic efforts on family trips to St. Ives, Cornwall, and France. He studied architecture and drafting at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn and then painting at the National Academy of Design. He found early recognition for his New York street scenes. He returned to St. Ives in 1914 and visited the Rocky Mountains in 1925. In 1920 Wiggins bought a farm near the Old Lyme artists’ colony, where he spent summers and later established the Guy Wiggins Art School. Wiggins’ work can be found in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Newark Museum, New Jersey; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Na- tional Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Alexander H. Wyant (1836–1892) Alexander Helwig Wyant was born in Port Washington or Ev- ans Creek, Ohio. He established himself as an artist in Cincin- nati from 1857 to 1863 and in New York from 1863 to 1865. After training with Hans Friedrich Gude in Karlsruhe, Germany, and visiting England and Ireland, he returned to New York and enjoyed a successful career as a landscape painter. In 1873 Wy- ant suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right side, but he soon taught himself to paint with his left hand. After 1880 he spent much of his time in Keene Valley in the Adirondacks and, after 1889, in the Catskills at Arkville, New York. Wyant’s work can be found in the collections of The Metro- politan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Addi- son Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mas- sachusetts; Cincinnati Art Museum; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 101