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Painting: Shady Pool

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Title
Painting: Shady Pool
Description
  • framed dimensions are 22-1/2" x 25".
  • A painting with a small pool of water lying between tall trees near the foreground, and an open field backed by trees is visible beyond. All painted with quick brushstrokes. Dimensions by sight are 15-3/4" x 12-1/4
Interpretation
As a boy, Wyant was apprenticed to a sign painter and harness maker. Once he decided to pursue a career as a fine artist, he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York, in Germany and in England. He opened a studio in New York City in 1867. Six years later he participated in an extensive grovernment sponsored expedition through Arizona and New Mexico. Stylistically, Wyant fits into the late period of the Hudson River School (roughly 1825-1875), a group of landscape painters who believed that America's landscape was its strength; they often used the landscape to inspire religious feelings. Wyant's usual themes were the mountains and woodlands of the eastern United States, but he worked on a smaller scale and depicted less grandiose subjects than most Hudson River School artists. Along with his mentor, George Inness, Wyant moved beyond the strict realism of the Hudson River School, using a muted and limited range of colors (Tonalism) to show light and color, and worked with looser brushwork to achieve a soft, luminous effect. By the time of his death, Wyant was considered one of this nation's leading landscape painters.
Lesson Plans / Themes
  • American Communities in History  
  • How We Learn About Communities  
Learning Standards
  • 25-27 Fine Arts  
  • 18 Social Systems  
  • 16 History  
Author or Creator
Wyant, Alexander Helwig, 1836-1892  
Source
Donated to the Lakeview Museum by an Anonymous Donor  
Subject / Keywords
  • Hudson River School  
  • Oil on canvas  
  • Wyant, Alexander H., 1836-1892  
  • Landscape  
  • Painting  
Spatial Coverage
New York (N.Y.)  
Temporal Coverage
1865~
Collection Publisher
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences
Rights
Copyright Not Evaluated
Resource Identifier
LVM1985.038
Date Created
37476
Collection Title
Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)
Collection
Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)
TitlePainting: Shady Pool
Description
  • framed dimensions are 22-1/2" x 25".
  • A painting with a small pool of water lying between tall trees near the foreground, and an open field backed by trees is visible beyond. All painted with quick brushstrokes. Dimensions by sight are 15-3/4" x 12-1/4
InterpretationAs a boy, Wyant was apprenticed to a sign painter and harness maker. Once he decided to pursue a career as a fine artist, he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York, in Germany and in England. He opened a studio in New York City in 1867. Six years later he participated in an extensive grovernment sponsored expedition through Arizona and New Mexico. Stylistically, Wyant fits into the late period of the Hudson River School (roughly 1825-1875), a group of landscape painters who believed that America's landscape was its strength; they often used the landscape to inspire religious feelings. Wyant's usual themes were the mountains and woodlands of the eastern United States, but he worked on a smaller scale and depicted less grandiose subjects than most Hudson River School artists. Along with his mentor, George Inness, Wyant moved beyond the strict realism of the Hudson River School, using a muted and limited range of colors (Tonalism) to show light and color, and worked with looser brushwork to achieve a soft, luminous effect. By the time of his death, Wyant was considered one of this nation's leading landscape painters.
Lesson Plans / Themes
  • American Communities in History  
  • How We Learn About Communities  
Learning Standards
  • 25-27 Fine Arts  
  • 18 Social Systems  
  • 16 History  
Author or CreatorWyant, Alexander Helwig, 1836-1892  
SourceDonated to the Lakeview Museum by an Anonymous Donor  
Subject / Keywords
  • Hudson River School  
  • Oil on canvas  
  • Wyant, Alexander H., 1836-1892  
  • Landscape  
  • Painting  
Spatial CoverageNew York (N.Y.)  
Temporal Coverage1865~
Collection PublisherLakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences
RightsCopyright Not Evaluated
Resource IdentifierLVM1985.038
Date Created37476
Collection TitleTeaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)
CollectionTeaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)

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