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Guy Carleton Wiggins

Clock Tower, Harkness Memorial, New Haven

Lot Closed

July 20, 04:02 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Guy Carleton Wiggins

1883 - 1962

Clock Tower, Harkness Memorial, New Haven


signed Guy Wiggins. (lower right); signed again and titled (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

canvas: 30 ¼ by 25 inches (76.8 by 63.5 cm)

framed: 41 by 36 inches (104 by 91.4 cm)

Gretchen H. Martin
Estate of the above
Private collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 27, 1992, lot 116)
Private collection, California (acquired at the above sale; sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 10, 2007, lot 211)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
The present work depicts the Yale University Harkness Tower, in New Haven, Connecticut. Constructed between 1917 and 1921, the tower is a focal point of the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle and was donated to the University by Anna M. Harkness in memory of her son, Charles Harkness.