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Alexander Helwig Wyant

American1836–1892

Portrait of Alexander Helwig Wyant

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Alexander Helwig Wyant 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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Works in the collection

14 works

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