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Watercolor
A Gray Day on the Riviera, Cap Ferrat
Louis Aston Knight, (Paris, France, 1873 – 1948, New York, NY)
Knight, Louis Aston
United States
1873 - 1948
Male
25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm)
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Opaque watercolor
Opaque watercolor
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American art, paintings, seascapes, watercolors
Watercolor
Louis Aston Knight was born of American parents in Paris, but didn’t visit the United States until 1905, by which time he was already an established painter. Two years later, he married a distant cousin, Caroline Ridgway Brewster of Rochester. Best known for bucolic Normandy landscapes in a style that Thomas Kinkade would appropriate many decades later, this particular view of the rocky French coastline east of Nice is unusual within the artist’s oeuvre in its muted palette and absence of picturesque old dwellings. Knight and his wife took refuge in New York City for the duration of WWI, and he lectured here at MAG in 1918.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
on the stretcherlower left
1913.2
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
13.2SL1
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13.2DI1
digital image
5/16/2002
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full
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13.2DI#3
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12/12/2012
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