Artist

Alexander Helwig Wyant

Portrait of Alexander Helwig Wyant
Portrait of Alexander Helwig Wyant

United States

Alexander Helwig Wyant is an United States American Impressionism painter. 20 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them oil paintings.

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.

Works by Alexander Helwig Wyant

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