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Alexander Helwig Wyant American, 1836-1892 In the Berkshires, Massachusetts Signed A. H. Wyant (lr) Oil on canvas 20 1/8 x 24 1/4 inches Provenance: Private collection, Scottsdale, AZ Exhibited: New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism, Nov. 12, 2005-Jan. 7, 2006, pp. 180, 183 color illus. Literature: Carol Lowrey, entry, "Alexander H. Wyant," in Ralph Sessions et al. The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005, pp. 180, 183 color illus. (no. 46). Considered one of the earliest exponents of American Tonalism, Alexander Wyant retained elements of the transcriptive detail of his earlier Hudson River School style in works such as In the Berkshires, but his intimate perspective and nuanced light demonstrates the subjective strain in his art. The critic Charles Caffin described the feeling in paintings such as this as "pregnant with suggestion," representing a "search for the spiritual, poetic side of nature than an expressive simplification of composition and tone." (American Masters of Painting, 1902). C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC