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THOMAS McKNIGHT WESTPORT 2001 HAND SIGNED NATURE VIEW Serigraph large COA. THOMAS McKNIGHT. McKnight and his wife live in Litchfield, Connecticut. Hand signed and numbered XXI/L. THOMAS McKNIGHT He was born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas. He attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of only five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris. 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 earnest. In 1979 in Mykonos, McKnight met Renate, a vacationing Austrian student, and married the following year. Throughout the 1980s McKnight’s art, mainly limited edition serigraph prints, became increasingly popular. In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Clinton’s official Christmas card. 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. McKnight’s work is represented in the permanent collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in the Smithsonian Institution McKnight and his wife live in Litchfield, Connecticut WESTPORT Image Size: 28" x 32" inches Size: 33" x 37" in. (84 X 94 cm) Hand signed and numbered XXI/L Very good condition, Colors of actual item may vary slightly from colors on your screen due to digital screen calibration varying between digital devices. International buyers are responsible for import duties, fees and taxes. See my other listings for more art. Thank you for looking!