Alexander Helwig Wyant

Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836, 1892) was an American landscape painter celebrated for his poetic, tonalist interpretations of the American wilderness, particularly the Adirondacks and the Tennessee River valley. Largely self-taught, he was influenced by the Hudson River School before developing a more intimate, atmospheric style reminiscent of the Barbizon painters and George Inness. Despite suffering a paralytic stroke in 1873 that left his right hand disabled, he continued to paint with his left hand, producing some of his most sensitive and freely handled works.