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Alexander Helwig Wyant

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Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836 - 1892) was active/lived in New York, Ohio.  Alexander Wyant is known for Tonalist landscape and genre painting.

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 Born in Evans Creek, Ohio, Alexander Wyant was a tonalist landscape and genre painter who was part of the Hudson River School painters but who is credited with making the transition within that School from a tight, restrictive style to the freer methods of Impressionism.  He was much influenced by the French Barbizon impressionists, and his signature grandiose eastern mountain landscapes with dramatic cloud formations were much sought after during his lifetime.

He was raised in a family of itinerant farmers and early apprenticed to a harness maker and sign painter. His commitment to becoming an artist resulted from his seeing landscapes by George Inness Sr. in an exhibition in Cincinnati in 1857.  He made a trip to New York to meet Inness, who recognizing the young man's talent, helped him secure to the patronage of Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati.

This financial help enabled Wyant to study for a year at the National Academy in New York City, whe   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6435 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  142
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Alexander Helwig Wyant
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review American Works/Paine Art Center October 1998 Manoguerra, Paul Yes
The Magazine Antiques Paintings of the Adirondack July 1997 Welsh, Caroline Yes
The Magazine Antiques Paintings of Florida in the Vickers November 1995 Cikovsky, Nicolai Jr Yes
142 Book References for Alexander Helwig Wyant
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 Pollack, Deborah C. Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South 400 Yes
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
2008 Editors, Vose Galleries of Boston Recent Acquisitions: Fall 2008
(Exhibition catalog)		 39 Yes
2008 Pennington, Estill Curtis Kentucky The Master Painters 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Love, Richard; Michael Worley, Ph.D American Paintings from the Hainsworth Collection 157 Yes
2005 Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.)
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
2004 Cleveland, David Adams Intimate Landscapes: Charles Warren Eaton and the Tonalist Movement in American Art, 1880-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 Yes
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2004 Riback, Estelle The Intimate Landscape A New Look at the Origins of the American Barbizon Movement 132 Yes
2003 Austin, Robert Michael Artists of the Litchfield Hills
(Exhibition catalog)		 132 Yes
2003 Richter, Marianne; Wendy Greenhouse (Essays) Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection 308 Yes
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn The Nineteenth Century: Rediscovering American Painters (Vose Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 Burns, Sarah Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America 380 No
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1995 Libby, Gary R (editor) Celebrating Florida Works of Art from the Vickers Collection 144 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1993 Miller, Angela The Empire of the Eye Landscape and American Cultural Politics 1825-1875 298 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Baekland, Frederick Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1989 Blaugrund, Annette Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Minks, Louise The Hudson River School The Landscape Art (of 25 artists) 112 Yes
1989 Richard York Gallery An American Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Howat, John K American Paradise World of the Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)		 346 Yes
1988 Marling, Karal Ann Looking Back A Perspective on the 1913 Inaugural Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 55 Yes
1987 Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1986 Carr, Carolyn K The Edwin C Shaw Collection of American Impressionist & Tonalist Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Munson Williams-Proctor Inst Two Hundred Years of American Art 101 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Kopitske, Christine (Editor) American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1984 Wilmerding, John The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1983 Detroit Institute of the Arts The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1983 Johnston, Sona K American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art 187 Yes
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1982 Owens, Gwendolyn Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1982 Terra Museum of American Art Solitude Inner Visions in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 41 Yes
1982 Trapp, Kenneth R Celebrate Cincinnati Art 89 No
1981 Nassau County Museum William Cullen Bryant (and the) Hudson River School of Landscape Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 61 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1981 Williams, William James A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art 256 Yes
1980 Novak, Barbara and Annette Blaugrund Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design 213 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Rogers, Millard F Jr.; Denny Carter, Bruce Weber The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 218 Yes
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Rhode Island School of Design American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930 241 No
1977 Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923) 119 No
1976 Wadsworth Atheneum The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes 96 Yes
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1975 Buckley, Charles E The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections 377 Yes
1975 Heckscher Museum American Painting 32 Yes
1975 National Academy of Design A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 262 No
1974 Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay) 19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Corn, Wanda M The Color of Mood American Tonalism 1880-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Howat, John K; James Biddle (Preface); Carl Carmer (Foreward) The Hudson River and Its Painters 207 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 Yes
1970 Caffin, Charles H American Masters of Painting 195 No
1970 Cohen, Mildred Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1970 Hawes, Louis The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 No
1970 Howat, John K (others) 19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Genesco, S U College, New York Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 No
1966 Los Angeles County Museum American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 143 Yes
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1964 Kuh, Katherine Art in New York State New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 126 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1961 Hamilton (Canada) Art Gallery American Realists
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1960 Pasadena Art Museum American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1951 Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner History of Modern Painting 391 Yes
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1948 Born, Wolfgang American Landscape Painting An Interpretation 228 No
1948 Gardner, Helen Art Through the Ages (Third Edition) 851 Yes
1947 Sears, Clara Endicott Hudson River Artists Highlights among the 280 No
1945 Sweet, Frederick A The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1943 Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller Romantic Painting in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1937 Caffin, Charles H The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America 396 No
1937 Editor, Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 No
1936 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Main Currents in the Development of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1934 Cahill, Holger/Alfred H Barr Art in America In Modern Times (1865-1934) 110 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1932 Museum of Modern Art American Painting & Sculpture 1862-1932
(Exhibition catalog)		 135 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1929 La Follette, Suzanne Art in America 361 No
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1917 Guthrie, Anna Lorraine American Art A Study Outline 63 No
1909 Rathbun, Richard The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70 140 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
1898 Hoyt, Deristhe L. The World's Painters and Their Pictures 272 No
1879 Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele Art in America a Critical and Historical Sketch 214 No
1879 Sheldon, G W American Painters With Eighty-three Engraved Examples of Their Work 184 No
Bailey, James History of Town of Keene, N Y 0 No
Tenenbaum, F. (Curator) American Painting: The Heckscher Museum 32 Yes
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