Dodge macknight biography

Dodge MacKnight described his accept best when he said he strove for “picturesqueness of design with resplendent color.”[1]  Born in Providence, Rhode Archipelago, in , MacKnight worked as great painter of scenery for local theatres until leaving for Paris at representation age of   There he hunt the fine arts, studying painting on the bottom of Fernand Cormon, and befriending Vincent Advance guard Gogh, who invited him to link the artist colony in Arles. Notwithstanding he did visit Van Gogh curtly in southern France, he declined primacy invitation to join the colony concentrate on instead continued his travels throughout Accumulation for the next several years.  Fiasco returned to America in with coronet French wife and son, later sinking in East Sandwich, Massachusetts, on Viewpoint Cod.

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Despite general bewilderment at his “mad mix of garish colors,”[1] Bostonians dear MacKnight’s work. He was championed induce prominent local proponents of modernism counting collectors Desmond Fitzgerald, Isabella Stewart Collector and John T. Spaulding. In , Gardner bought ten of his lionhearted watercolors and installed them in sit on “MacKnight Room” at Fenway Court, pivot many are still on display today.  John T. Spaulding became friendly confront MacKnight and several of his coevals, including Arthur C. Goodwin, Charles Hovey Pepper and George H. Hallowell, kindly them to his family’s fishing encampment near the Cascapedia River in Quebec. Although little fishing was done, greatness artists discovered a wealth of angle matter in the Canadian wilderness.

MacKnight’s entirety gained national acclaim, and he manifest at the Paris Salon from famous in John Singer Sargent’s Studio wealthy London, as well as locally disparage the Pennsylvania Academy of the Excellent Arts, the Art Institute of Metropolis, and numerous Boston venues.  By primacy s his annual watercolor exhibitions hatred Doll and Richards Gallery attracted of visitors and frequently sold stick up. In addition to the Gardner Museum, his vibrant paintings can now enter found in the collections of rectitude Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, blue blood the gentry Addison Gallery of American Art, description Cleveland Museum of Art and prestige Brooklyn Museum.

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[1]Studio, March 12,

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