Wiggins often painted scenes of New York City, as evident in
The Metropolitan Tower (
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York);
Washington Square in Winter (
Richmond Art Museum, Indiana);
Columbia Circle, Winter (
National Gallery of Art, Washington); and
Riverside Drive (1915). Wiggins painted in an
impressionistic style, as may be seen especially in
Berkshire Hills, June (
Brooklyn Museum). He traveled New England painting streams, fields and woodlands capturing on canvas the various seasons of the year. He became one of the youngest members of the
Old Lyme Art Colony of
Old Lyme, Connecticut, and painted alongside his father, Carleton,
Childe Hassam, and
Frank Vincent DuMond. Wiggins began teaching art in
Essex, Connecticut, in 1937. He did a portrait of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and gave it to the
White House in 1959. Wiggins served as the president of the
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member of the
National Academy of Design, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and the
Lyme Art Association. He won the Flagg Prize, the Cooper Prize and the Atheneum Prize from the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; the Harris Medal from the
Art Institute of Chicago; the Turnbull Prize and the Isidor Prize from the
Salmagundi Club; and the J. Francis Murphy Memorial Prize from the
Rhode Island School of Design. ==Personal life, death and legacy==