Description: Thomas McKnight (b. 1941) Original Limited Edition Serigraph, 1993. Signed in pencil lower right. Edition in pencil lower left 175/200.Measures: 20"h x 22 1/4"w. Frame measures: 35 ½”h x 38"w. A beautiful print by the artist in excellent condition. Titled: “Malibu” Thomas McKnight was born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas. He came of age artistically during the 1970's. His work, full of color and image, seems to be a reaction to that gray decade. After growing up in various suburbs of Washington, D.C., Montreal and New York, 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 where he developed a life long love of European civilization. After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University, McKnight decided against pursuing a career as an art professor or curator. In 1964 he found a job at Time magazine where he would work for eight years, interrupted by a two year stint in the army in Korea.In 1972 he left Time magazine, summered on the Greek island of Mykonos, and commenced painting in earnest. His work began to sell, although slowly, in America and Germany. In the early 1980's he discovered a larger audience by creating limited edition serigraph prints. By then he had found that the silkscreen technique was a natural choice. Throughout the 1980s McKnight's art became increasingly popular, and by the end of the decade he was at the top of his field. His art was perhaps even more well-known in Japan, where he was commissioned to paint a series of views of Kobe for the city's 1993 fair. In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Clinton's official Christmas card. Today, McKnight's work is represented in the permanent collection of New York 's Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Smithsonian Institute. McKnight and his wife live in a large neo-colonial house in the picturesque village of Litchfield , Connecticut.
Price: 750 USD
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Year of Production: 1993
Features: Limited Edition
Type: Print
