Oil on canvas (lined), signed at lower left, presented in a carved giltwood frame.

Stretcher size 20 x 12 in.; Frame dimensions 25 x 16 1/2 in.

Private Collection, Goldsboro, North Carolina

Born in Evans Creek, Ohio, Alexander Wyant was a tonalist landscape and genre painter who was a member of the Hudson River School but transitioned into freer methods of impressionism. He apprenticed to a harness maker and sign painter from an early age. He saw the work of George Inness in an exhibition in Cincinnati in 1857 and made a trip to New York to meet the artist, who then helped him secure the patronage of Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati. The patronage allowed Wyant to study at the National Academy in New York City. By 1865, he was in Karlsruhe, Germany working with Hans Fredrik Gude, of the Dusseldorf school. In 1867, he returned to New York City, establishing a studio and traveling frequently into the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains.

In 1873 he traveled to New Mexico and Arizona to paint the Canyon de Chelly in Navajo country. On this trip, he suffered a stroke, which paralyzed his right hand and forced him to paint with his left. From then on his work was rendered in a freer style.

He was a member of the Century Association and the National Academy. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Art Association, the Boston Arts Club, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wyant's work can be found in the National Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Tennessee State Museum, and the Kentucky Art Museum.

Canvas has been lined, several areas of professional restoration and retouching visible under UV light inspection.