Although best known for his snowy cityscapes of New York, Guy Wiggins did produce a significant number of landscape paintings. The majority of these landscapes depict the area around Old Lyme, Connecticut where both Guy and his father Carleton took residence in the mid-teens. Just after the turn of the century, Old Lyme became an appealing destination for American Impressionists and grew into a loosely structured artist's colony, popularized by an early visit of Childe Hassam.

New England Farmlands of 1929 most likely depicts the Connecticut countryside on a bright summer day. Painted with thick, unconnected brushstrokes in a loose, rapid fashion, this picture reveals the influence of both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism on Wiggin's style by the early 1920s.