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Alexander Helwig Wyant

Peaceful Valley, c. 1872

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 17.7 x 31.1 cm (6 15/16 x 12 1/4 in.)

framed: 36.8 x 49.5 x 4.8 cm (14 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of James C. Stotlar

Accession Number

1965.10.1

Artists / Makers

Alexander Helwig Wyant (artist) American, 1836 - 1892

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Inscription

lower right: A H. Wyant

Provenance

Private collection, Indianapolis, Indiana, until 1919;[1] acquired 1919 by (M. A. Newhouse and Son, Saint Louis, Missouri); sold 1920 to Harry Stotlar, Benton, Illinois;[2] his son, James C. Stotlar, Bethesda, Maryland; gift 1965 to NGA.

[1] Letter, B.M. Newhouse to Harry Stotlar, 19 November 1919 (in NGA curatorial files), stating that he had just acquired the painting from an unnamed individual in Indianapolis.

[2] Bill of sale, M. A. Newhouse and Son, dated 22 January 1920 (in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Newhouse and Son, M.A.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Stotlar, Harry
Stotlar, James C.

Exhibition History

1968: Springfield Art Festival, Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, 1968, no cat.

1974: 19th Century American Topographic Painters, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, 1974-1975, no. 149, repro.

1975: Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Dublin, Ireland, 1975-1978.

1979: Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979-1981.

1985: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Stuart, U.S. Embassy residence, Oslo, Norway, 1985-1989.

1991: Extended loan for use by Justice Anthony Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1991-1999.

2001: Extended loan for use by Vice President Richard Cheney, The White House, Washington, D.C., 2001-2008.

2014: Peindre l'Amerique. Les artistes du Nouveau Monde 1830-1900, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, 2014, no. 55, repro.

Bibliography

1968: Olpin, Robert Spencer. Alexander Helwig Wyant, 1836-1892. Exh. cat. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 1968: 16.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 124, repro.

1971: Olpin, Robert Spencer. "Alexander Helwig Wyant, American Landscape Painter: An Investigation of His Life and Fame and a Critical Analysis of his Work with a Catalogue Raisonné of Wyant Painting." Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University, 1971: 287, no. 63.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 261, repro.

1981: Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 123, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 384, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 270-272, color repro.