(1941 - )

McKnight discovered art at about thirteen when his mother gave him a set of oil paints, and his first painting, a snowy castle on a hill, was not unlike some of 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 D.C., Montreal, and NYC, he attended Wesleyan University, where he was only one of five art majors. Perhaps this fostered his independent approach to the art "isms" of his time. He spent is junior year in Paris where he developed a lifelong love of European civilization. In 1964 he found a job at Time magazine where he would work for eight years, interrupted by a two-year stint in the army in Korea

During a vacation in Greece in 1970, McKnight realized that the corporate life was not for him. Two years later he left Time to live on the Greek island of Mykonos, and commenced painting in earnest. His work slowly began to sell in America and Germany. In the early 80's he attracted a larger audience by creating limited edition serigraph prints.

Throughout the 80's McKnight's art became increasingly popular, and by the end of the decade he was at the top of his field: four books were devoted to his work, and hundreds of silkscreen editions sold. In 1993 he was commissioned by Japan to paint a series of views of Kobe for the city's 1993 fair.

"Chicago Lake Shore"
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