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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Alexander Helwig Wyant
1836–1892 · American
- Born
- 1836 · Port Washington
- Died
- 1892 · New York City
4 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Alexander Helwig Wyant was an American landscape painter whose early works belonged to the Hudson River School, later evolving into Tonalism. After a stroke paralyzed his right arm, he taught himself to paint with his left.
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Alexander Helwig Wyant (January 11, 1836 – November 29, 1892) was an American landscape painter. His early works belonged to the Hudson River School, with its direct pastoral narrative, but evolved into the more moody and shadowy Tonalism. After a stroke which paralysed his right arm, he taught himself to paint with his left.
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Selected registered works by Alexander Helwig Wyant
Selected from 4 works by Alexander Helwig Wyant in the Collect24 Registry.
Alexander Helwig Wyant
Road in Ireland, 1866
oil paint
30.8 × 50.8 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
C24-453190
Alexander Helwig Wyant
A Gray Day, 1891
oil paint
41 × 56.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
C24-453191
Alexander Helwig Wyant
Peaceful Valley, c. 1872
oil on canvas
17.7 × 31.1 cm
National Gallery of Art
C24-100070
Alexander Helwig Wyant
River Stream with Mountains in the Distance, 1856/92
Brown charcoal heightened with white chalk and touches of brush and white gouache, on green wove paper
29.7 × 45.7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago
C24-1149334
Alexander Helwig Wyant
Landscape near Arkville, c. 1889
Oil on canvas
51.4 × 76.8 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-123881
Alexander Helwig Wyant
Misty Morning Near the Lakes of Killarney, c. 1873-1875
Oil on canvas
30.8 × 50.5 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-135062
Museums and collections
Where works by Alexander Helwig Wyant are registered
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
United States
2 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
1 work
- National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
1 work
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