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Louis Aston Knight Biography

American Naturalist painter
born 1873 - died 1948

Student of: Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911), Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1912).
Son of: Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924).

Louis Aston Knight was the son of the American ex-patriot painter, Daniel Ridgway Knight. Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in America and began studying art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. In 1872, Louis Aston Knight traveled to Paris and continued to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Thereafter, he remained in Europe, and studied in the academic studios of the Romantic Salon painters, Jules Ernst Meissonier and Charles Gleyre and the Impressionists, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Although Ridgway Knight, spent most of his life in Europe, his American style and technique show through. This typically American approach towards painting was to influence artist Louis Aston Knight as well.

He is most famous for his French landscapes. You will not find figures in Louis Aston Knight art, due to an agreement, which he made with his father, in order to keep their work from looking too similar. This was however unnecessary, because their work is very different. Ridgway Knight painted tightly, while Louis Aston Knight paintings shows a much stronger influence of the Impressionists with whom he was friendly.

Aston looked up to Claude Monet, and visited him from time to time at his home in Giverny. Louis Aston Knight artist was particularly impressed with Monet's gardens, and strove to cultivate a garden as beautiful as the master's. He also awarded prizes each year to the neighboring peasants who kept the nicest gardens. This ensured him of good models for his cottage landscape paintings.

Gradually he became well known in the New York art scene and began to do some of Louis Aston Knight painting in the states. In 1911, Knoedler and Co., held an exhibition of his landscapes of the U.S.A. and France. His exhibition at the Levy Gallery in New York, in 1931 attracted much attention. In fact, "Art News" critiqued the show (26 December issue) and described his fame and plein-air approach:

"A group of new landscapes by Louis Aston Knight, the popular painter of the Normandy Riverscape, is the Holiday attraction at the Levy Gallery. Mr. Knight sticks closely to his well established formula, doubtless due to the tremendous acclaim acquired in his earlier years when Hopkinson Smith publicized him as the "painter in the high rubber boots" for artist Louis Aston Knight was not content with studying the action of the Normandy streams from the comfortable banks.... used to do on a pair of waist-high rubber boots and setting up his easel in mid-stream, paint the purling waters at first hand."

Aston Knight was a favorite of American presidents in his day. In 1922, President Harding purchased a Louis Aston Knight painting, to hang in the White House, and President Coolidge held a private exhibition of Louis Aston Knight art during his presidency.

Many of Louis Aston Knight paintings have had international acclaim and are housed in the art collections of the Luxembourg Museum, Muse des Colonies in Paris, in Nimes & Evreux France and in the Museum of Fine Art in Toledo, Ohio and the Delgado Museum in New Orleans.

Exhibitions: John Levy Galleries, N.Y., Nov. 24 – Dec. 6, n.d.
Knoedler & Co., N.Y., Dec 26, 1911 – Jan 6, 1912
Detroit Museum of Art, March 18 – 30, 1914
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, May 1918

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