FILTER RESULTS
A Gray Day on the Riviera, Cap Ferrat
25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm)Louis Aston Knight
American (Paris, France, 1873 - 1948)
Object Type:
Watercolor
Medium and Support:
Opaque watercolor on paper laid down on canvas
Credit Line:
Gift of E. Franklin Brewster
Accession Number:
1913.2
Location: Not currently on view
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]
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
Marks
Artist's signature, lower left: Aston Knight/Paris Inscription, on the stretcher: 86 a gray day on the Riviera
Provenance
Purchased from 1914 exhibition of Aston Knight's work at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
Keywords
Click a term to view the records with the same keyword
Additional Images
Click an image to view a larger version
Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- A Selected Group of Paintings by Aston Knight of Paris 1/6/1914 - 1/25/1914
- Loans to Kodak Office Cafeteria Memorial Art Gallery 5/1/1957 - 00/00/00
- It Came from the Vault: Rarely Seen Works from MAG's Collection 3/17/2013 - 6/9/2013
Portfolio List
Click a portfolio name to view all the objects in that portfolio
This object is a member of the following portfolios:
Web Links
See links to web pages and lesson plans
It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue
Entry for this artwork in the It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue. The exhibition ran from March 17-June 9, 2013