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Hilary Knight

Hilary Knight (Born 1926) is active/lives in New York.  Hilary Knight is known for Children's book illustration, advertising and poster art.

"Remarkable. Extraordinary. Eccentric: The Man Who Drew Eloise Recalls His Muses," by Alexandra Jacos, June 29, 2017, Art & Design section, The New York Times

Long before there was millennial pink there was rose carthame, a chemical but warm paint hue favored by Katharine Sturges Dodge, mother of the artist Hilary Knight, and an artist herself. “She used it in cheeks, especially,” Mr. Knight said the other afternoon.

“Think pink!” his most famous collaborator, Kay Thompson, belted in the 1957 movie Funny Face. And because of the blockbuster success of their fictional and widely franchised character Eloise, the 6-year-old girl who first appeared in Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups in 1955 and has been running amok at (and raking it in for) the Plaza Hotel ever since, one might believe Mr. Knight not only thinks but bleeds pink ink.

But as two new exhibitions reveal, he is a many-shaded man, a chameleon, a “Joseph and the Amazing Techn   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13000 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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