Dodge MacKnight

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Portrait of Dodge MacKnight by Australian artist John Russell
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Brooklyn Museum - Sand Dunes, Cape Cod - Dodge MacKnight - overall

Dodge Macknight ( William Dodge MacKnight; 1 October 1860, in Providence, Rhode Island – 23 May 1950, in East Sandwich, Massachusetts) was an American painter.

Career

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MacKnight's work falls under the post-Impressionism, an art movement that succeeded the nineteenth-century impressionism. MacKnight made the major part of his career watercolors. His colorful works were appreciated by amateurs in Boston, who were receptive to impressionist aesthetics. He painted mostly landscapes.

MacKnight lived in Fontvieille at the time when Vincent van Gogh was living in Arles.[1] In 1888, they met through John Russell.[2] MacKnight was an acquaintance of van Gogh, and introduced him to the Belgian painter Eugène Boch.[3] Russell portrayed both van Gogh and MacKnight.

The largest collections of MacKnight's works are at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge (Massachusetts) also have a collection of his paintings.

References

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  1. ^ Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Penguin edition, 1998 page 348
  2. ^ Van Gogh Museum, Vincent van Gogh, The Letters
  3. ^ Eugene Boch a friend of Dodge MacNight
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