Alexander Helwig Wyant Original Antique American Tonalism Sunset Landscape Oil Painting Woodland River At Dusk AH Wyant

Original, antique landscape of a woodland river at dusk, by American tonalism painter, Alexander Wyant.
   Alexander Helwig Wyant, (1836, in Ohio – 1892 in New York, New York), was an American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York; among other places. 
    Alexander Wyant was born at Port Washington, Ohio. He started painting beside the Ohio River when he was in Cincinnati, Ohio. A landscape painter in the style of George Inness, whom he later met in New York City. His early paintings followed closely the Hudson River School tradition, while the later—infused with low-key colors, atmospheric features and poetic interpretation, are representative of tonalism.
    Raised in Defiance, Ohio, Alexander H. Wyant worked during his teens as a sign painter, in nearby Port Washington. In 1857, he was impressed with some paintings by George Inness at an exhibition in Cincinnati and soon left for New York to meet Inness. After returning to Cincinnati, Wyant secured the support of Nicholas Longworth, and went to study in New York in 1860. He went on a trip that started in Paris in 1860, where he saw Corot and Dupré's works, before moving on to Germany.
    After an interlude of two years in Cincinnati, he moved back to New York City in 1863. He exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design in 1864, and was elected an associate there in 1868, and an academician in 1869. Wyant went abroad in 1865, studying for a few months with the Norwegian painter Hans Gude in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe, Germany, and making brief stops in England and Ireland before settling again in New York. After 1866 Wyant gradually shifted toward a more fluid handling of paint, with increasing reliance on a palette emphasizing shades of white, gray, and the earth colors. From 1867, he exhibited his watercolors almost annually and was instrumental in the founding of the American Watercolor Society, in 1878.
    A partial stroke while on a government expedition to Arizona and New Mexico in 1873, led to paralysis of his right arm. Between 1874 and 1880, he worked in his studio in New York City, teaching himself to paint with his left hand. After his marriage in 1880, he began to spend most of his time in Keene Valley, New York. He moved in 1889 to Arkville, New York (in the Catskills). He frequently painted in the Adirondacks as well as in the Catskills. He died in 1892 in New York City shortly after completing Arkville Autumn Landscape, his last painting. He was only moderately appreciated during his lifetime, though after his death his works were eagerly sought for.
    He was a member of the Century Association and the National Academy of Design, to which he was elected in 1869. Exhibitions included the following venues: National Academy of Design, 1865–92; Brooklyn Art Association, 1867–92; Boston Art Club, 1877–82; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1879–81; Art Institute of Chicago; and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public collections that own or display Wyant's work include the National Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Tennessee State Museum, Dayton Art Institute, Kentucky Art Museum and Snite Museum of Art.

Comparable paintings by Alexander Wyant/Online References:

https://www.1000museums.com/art_works/alexander-helwig-wyant-florida-sunset-c-1885-1892

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Sunrise_by_Alexander_Wyant%2C_American%2C_undated%2C_oil_on_canvas_-_Huntington_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC05247.JPG

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Alexander Helwig Wyant
(1836-1892)
American Tonalism, Impressionism
Woodland River at Dusk
Oil on Devoe, NY Academy Board
Painting alone measures approximately 11.8" X 18.8", plus frame. (Canvas board was cut down many years ago, by the artist, from a larger sized board)
Signed lower left corner
Estimated to have been created between approximately 1885-1889
Painting is still housed in original antique, carved wood frame. There is no backing, and painting will need to be fastened back into the frame, with a backing, eventually.
Painting is in excellent condition, with no overpaints. Painting has had a professional clean, in the last four years, to removed yellowed varnish. Please review images.

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