Carleton Wiggins was an American

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 landscape and cattle painter. He was born in Orange Co.

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, N. Y.

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, and studied in New York

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 at the National Academy of Design

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 and with George Inness

George Inness

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, and in Paris

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, and settled in New York. His landscape were executed in broad flowing lines, with a rich low-toned color scheme, and often contain cattle, solidly and realistically portrayed. Good examples are:

• "Young Holstein Bull" (Metropolitan Museum, New York)
• "Cattle in Pond" (Brooklyn Museum)
• "Sheep and Landscape" (Brooklyn Museum)
• "Lake and Mountains" (Art Institute, Chicago)
• "Moonrise on the Lake" (Art Institute, Chicago)
• "October" (Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington)
• "Evening after a Shower" (National Gallery, Washington)
• "The Plow Horse" (Lotos Club
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  , New York)

Wiggins was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1906. For his son, see Guy Carleton Wiggins.

External links

• 'A Family of Painters is Having Its Moment', Ann Farmer, The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  , 6 June 2011