Thomas McKnight (artist)

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Thomas McKnight
Born
Lawrence, Kansas
EducationWesleyan University, Columbia University
OccupationArtist
Website thomasmcknight.com

Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is an American artist. He was born in Kansas. [1]

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Early life and education

McKnight was born in Lawrence, Kansas, he attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut. In 1964, he spent a year studying art history at Columbia University.

Career

After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University, in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would work for eight years, interrupted by a two-year stint in the U. S. Army in South Korea.

In 1972 McKnight left Time, summered on the Greek island of Mykonos, and commenced painting. In 1988, McKnight’s Constitution was chosen as the official image of the US Constitution Bicentennial. [2]

Throughout the 1980s McKnight's art, mainly limited edition serigraph prints, became increasingly popular. [3]

McKnight was commissioned by the city of Kobe, Japan to create a series of paintings to act as the centerpiece for its tricentennial celebration. [4]

In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Bill Clinton’s official Christmas card. [5] [6] One of these, "White House Red Room", was used as the cover of a Lands' End catalog, which sold both the art and the original as one of the Christmas gift items. In 1995 [7] and 1996, [8] McKnight produced he Presidential Christmas card.

McKnight's work is represented in the permanent collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in the Smithsonian Institution. [9]

Personal life

In 1979 in Mykonos, McKnight met Renate, a vacationing Austrian student, and married the following year. McKnight and his wife live in Litchfield, Connecticut. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Thomas McKnight at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 May 2015)
  2. ↑ "Thomas Frederick McKnight Art & Prints | Zimmerman Editions, Ltd". www.zimmermanfineart.com. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
  3. ↑ THOMAS MCKNIGHT at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 August 2016)
  4. ↑ "Thomas McKnight Bio". divart.com. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  5. 1 2 A Touch of Litchfield in White House Card - The New York Times retrieved 21st Jan 2010
  6. ↑ Thomas McKnight ( 1-Dec-1994) at the Wayback Machine (archived 1 January 2017) NARA.gov retrieved 21st Jan 2010
  7. ↑ "White House Christmas 1995". clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
  8. ↑ "White House Christmas Card 1996". clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
  9. ↑ Thomas McKnight < Artist Directory < Artists and Guilds
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