Thomas McKnight (artist)
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Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is an American artist.[1]
Born in Lawrence, Kansas, he attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of only five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris. After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University, in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would work for eight years, interrupted by a two-year stint in the U. S. Army in South Korea.
In 1972 McKnight left Time, summered on the Greek island of Mykonos, and commenced painting in earnest. In 1979 in Mykonos, McKnight met Renate, a vacationing Austrian student, and married the following year.
Throughout the 1980s McKnight's art, mainly limited edition serigraph prints, became increasingly popular.[2]
In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Bill Clinton’s official Christmas card.[3][4] One of these, "White House Red Room", was used as the cover of a Lands' End catalog, which sold both the art and the original as one of the Christmas gift items.
McKnight's work is represented in the permanent collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in the Smithsonian Institution.[5]
McKnight and his wife live in Litchfield, Connecticut.[3]
References
- ^ Thomas McKnight at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 May 2015)
- ^ THOMAS MCKNIGHT at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 August 2016)
- ^ a b A Touch of Litchfield in White House Card - The New York Times retrieved 21st Jan 2010
- ^ Thomas McKnight ( 1-Dec-1994) at the Wayback Machine (archived 1 January 2017) NARA.gov retrieved 21st Jan 2010
- ^ Thomas McKnight < Artist Directory < Artists and Guilds
External links
- Thomas McKnight Paintings, Prints, Silkscreens, Etchings, Serigraphs | Thomas McKnight Gallery, the Official Website
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