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Thomas McKnight

Thomas Frederick McKnight (Born 1941) is active/lives in Connecticut, New York, Kansas.  Thomas McKnight is known for Surreal landscape and figure painting, graphics.

Thomas McKnight is an artist somewhat out of sync with his times. Born in 1941 In Lawrence, Kansas, by generation he should have been an early Pop artist or a late Neo-Expressionist. But he came of age artistically during the 1970's, when art had practically done itself in with minimalism and conceptual experimentation. His work, full of color and image, seems to be a reaction to that gray decade

McKnight discovered art at about age thirteen when his mother gave him a set of oil paints, and his first painting - a snowy castle on a hill - was similar to those he still creates. When he was sixteen, McKnight's choice of career was confirmed by the famous designer and art director of Harper's Bazaar, Alexey Brodovitch, who told him that he "had it".

After growing up in various suburbs of Washington, D.C., Montreal and New York, he attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of only five art majors. Perhaps thi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6874 characters.]  Artist bio

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