Kim Douglas Wiggins, Lost Arroyo, 1990
Kim Douglas Wiggins
b. 1960
Lost Arroyo, 1990
oil on canvas
signed and dated lower left: KD WiggiNs 90
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm.), frame: 39 1/2 x 49 x 2 in. (100.3 x 124.5 x 5.1 cm.)
Private Collection, Colorado
Kim Douglas Wiggins occupies a singular place among painters of the American Southwest. Born in 1959 in Roswell, New Mexico, Wiggins built his reputation on expressionist landscapes and historical imagery of the American West, work that has been exhibited at venues including Altermann Galleries in New York and the Autry National Center in Los Angeles. Raised on a ranch in southern New Mexico, he began his artistic life sculpting miniatures of the wildlife around him before turning to paint, and by 1985 had been admitted as the youngest member of a national American impressionist society. His visual language draws on Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, American Regionalism, and the folk-art traditions of the muralist movement — an unlikely marriage of influences that gives his canvases their unmistakable, almost hallucinatory clarity.
Condition
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Kim Douglas Wiggins
b. 1960
Lost Arroyo, 1990
oil on canvas
signed and dated lower left: KD WiggiNs 90
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm.), frame: 39 1/2 x 49 x 2 in. (100.3 x 124.5 x 5.1 cm.)
Private Collection, Colorado
Kim Douglas Wiggins occupies a singular place among painters of the American Southwest. Born in 1959 in Roswell, New Mexico, Wiggins built his reputation on expressionist landscapes and historical imagery of the American West, work that has been exhibited at venues including Altermann Galleries in New York and the Autry National Center in Los Angeles. Raised on a ranch in southern New Mexico, he began his artistic life sculpting miniatures of the wildlife around him before turning to paint, and by 1985 had been admitted as the youngest member of a national American impressionist society. His visual language draws on Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, American Regionalism, and the folk-art traditions of the muralist movement — an unlikely marriage of influences that gives his canvases their unmistakable, almost hallucinatory clarity.
Condition
A condition report for this lot is available upon request (please include the lot number in your request) and is provided by Santa Fe Art Auction as a courtesy and convenience for potential buyers.
