Untitled
Artist: Alexander Helwig Wyant
Price:
$4,000.00
Medium: Painting
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Materials: Oil on wood? (not examined out of frame)
Dimensions: 12" x 15" x 3"
Condition: very good with no visible condition issues
Finish: Framed
About the Item: Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836-1892) undated and untitled oil painting possibly on wood or other hard surface (not examined out of frame). Wyant was perhaps best known for his Adirondack scenes in upstate New York, this painting shows an inlet of a river or lake a short time before sunset. Sunlight is coming down through breaks in the clouds and lighting up the water in the distance. The shoreline has steep hills in the distance. The foreground shows rocks and trees in the shadows of dusk. Some trees have turned a rust red giving us a clue to the time of year. Other trees are reflected in the water. Signed A.H. Wyant lower right. Small spots of pigment along top edge apparently from contact with frame (see images). No other visible condition issues. Visible image measures 5.5" x 8.75"; frame measures 12" x 15" x 3"
About The Artist
Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836 – 1892) was a tonalist landscape American artist who was part of the Hudson River School painter. Born in Evan Creek, Ohio, he was raised in a family of itinerant farmers and early apprenticed to a harness maker and sign painter. His passion for becoming an artist was sparked by his viewing of landscapes painted by George Inness Sr. at an exhibition in Cincinnati in 1857. He traveled to New York to meet Inness, who, recognizing the young man's talent, aided him in securing the patronage of Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati.
Wyant received financial assistance that enabled him to study for a year at the National Academy in New York City, where he briefly settled in 1863. He then traveled to Karlsruhe, Germany, with Hans Fredrik Gude, a Norwegian artist of the Dusseldorf school, and later lived in England, where he was greatly influenced by the landscapes of J.M.W. Turner. In 1867, he returned to New York City and established a studio, from which he frequently traveled to the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains. In 1889, Alexander Wyant moved to Arkville in the Catskills and passed away three years later in 1892. Wyant's work is included in public collections at the National Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Tennessee State Museum, and Kentucky Art Museum.
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