Alexander H. Wyant - Autumn at Arkville - 1909.7.78 - Smithsonian American Art Museum

Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836–1892) was an American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York, among other places. Alexander Wyant was born in Port Washington, Ohio. He started painting beside the Ohio River when he was in Cincinnati, Ohio. A landscape painter in the style of George Inness, whom he later met in New York City. His early paintings followed closely the Hudson River School tradition, while the latter—infused with low-key colors, atmospheric features, and poetic interpretation—are representative of tonalism.