Louis Aston Knight - Seascape
Artist: Louis Aston Knight
Active: New York, California / France
Title: Seascape
Category: Painting
Medium: Oil
Ground: Wood Panel
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 18.25 x 21.25”
Style: French Impressionist
Subject: Seascape
Frame: Straight Wood Stained Walnut
Frame Size Overall: 25.75 x 29
Seller's Notes/Description: Certificate of Authenticity will be included.
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The following biography is from the archives of askART.
Born in Paris, France on Aug. 3, 1873 of American parents. Knight studied in his native city under Lefebvre, Robert-Fleury, and with his father, D. R. Knight. While in San Francisco in 1925, he stayed at the Palace Hotel and painted cityscapes and a view of the Palace of Fine Arts. Other paintings of the Monterey Peninsula and Santa Monica are extant. Member: Rochester Art Club. Exh: Paris Expo, 1900 (medal); Paris Salon, 1901, 1905 (gold medal); Rheims Expo, 1903 (gold); Stendahl Gallery (LA), 1931; Gardena (CA) High School, 1933. In: Toledo Museum; Luxembourg Museum; Newark Museum.
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1900-33; Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (Bénézit, E); Who's Who in American Art 1936-41; Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers (Fielding, Mantle).