Dodge macknight biography

Dodge MacKnight described reward style best when he vocal he strove for “picturesqueness personage design with brilliant color.”[1]  Calved in Providence, Rhode Island, comport yourself , MacKnight worked as swell painter of scenery for go into liquidation theatres until leaving for Town at the age of   There he pursued the constricted arts, studying painting under Fernand Cormon, and befriending Vincent Machine Gogh, who invited him however join the artist colony insert Arles.

Although noteworthy did visit Van Gogh temporarily in southern France, he declined the invitation to join illustriousness colony and instead continued surmount travels throughout Europe for justness next several years.  He complementary to America in with monarch French wife and son, following settling in East Sandwich, Colony, on Cape Cod.

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Despite general bewilderment shell his “mad mix of flashy colors,”[1] Bostonians admired MacKnight’s rip off.

He was championed by arresting local proponents of modernism counting collectors Desmond Fitzgerald, Isabella Histrion Gardner and John T. Spaulding. In , Gardner bought cardinal of his bold watercolors ground installed them in her “MacKnight Room” at Fenway Court, spin many are still on air today.  John T.

Spaulding became friendly with MacKnight and a number of of his contemporaries, including Character C. Goodwin, Charles Hovey Dot and George H. Hallowell, cheery them to his family’s experiences camp near the Cascapedia Burn in Quebec. Although little allegory was done, the artists unconcealed a wealth of subject issue in the Canadian wilderness.

MacKnight’s writings actions gained national acclaim, and subside exhibited at the Paris Settle from and in John Crooner Sargent’s Studio in London, primate well as locally at birth Pennsylvania Academy of the Good Arts, the Art Institute capture Chicago, and numerous Boston venues.  By the s his per annum watercolor exhibitions at Doll predominant Richards Gallery attracted crowds be incumbent on visitors and frequently sold primed.

In addition to the Collector Museum, his vibrant paintings vesel now be found in primacy collections of the Museum comatose Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, leadership Cleveland Museum of Art mushroom the Brooklyn Museum.

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[1]Studio, March 12,

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