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| Alexander Helwig Wyant
American 1836 -1892
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| Born: |
Evans Creek, Ohio
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| Died: |
Arkville, New York
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| Active: |
Ohio
New York City
Karlesruhe, Germany
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| Addresses: |
New York, New York from 1866
Arkville, New York
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| Studied: |
National Academy of Design c.1894
Karlsruhe, Germany 1865-1866
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| Instructors: |
Hans Gude 1865-1866
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| Exhibited: |
National Academy of Design 1865-1892
Brooklyn Art Association 1867-1892
Boston Art Club 1877-1882
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1879-1881, 1893, 1902
Art Institute of Chicago
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1917, 1965, 1970
Whitney Museum of American Art 1938
Utah Centennial Exposition 1947
University of Utah 1968
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| Examples of Work: |
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
St. Louis Art Museum
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
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| Specialty: |
Painter
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| Style/School: |
Hudson River School
Impressionism
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| Subjects Known For: |
Landscapes
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| Memberships: |
National Academy of Design ANA 1868; NA 1869
Century Association 1875
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| BIOGRAPHY: |
(1836-1892) Alexander H. Wyant was a member of the second generation of Hudson River School painters, but his transition to a moody, atmospheric style aligned him with the Tonalist movement, of whom George Inness was the leading ...
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Alexander Helwig Wyant was born in Evans Creek, Ohio in 1836 and died in Arkville, New York in the Catskills in 1892. He was raised in a family of itinerant farmers and early apprenticed to a harness maker and sign painter...
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Alexander Wyant was one of the nineteenth century's most significant landscape painters, who helped to initiate the Tonalist movement of painting. Wyant's sensitive tonalist style was inspired by the work of George Inness, w...
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