Thomas McKnight (artist)

Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is a U.S. artist.

He was born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas.

He attended Wesleyan University, a little liberal arts intellectual in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of on your own five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris.

After a year of graduate work in art archives at Columbia University, in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would accomplishment 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 taking into account 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 Bill Clinton’s approved Christmas card. One of these, "White House Red Room", was used as the lid of a Lands' End catalog, which sold both the art and the native as one of the Christmas gift items.

McKnight's piece of legislation is represented in the long-lasting collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, as skillfully as in the Smithsonian Institution.

McKnight and his wife flesh and blood in Litchfield, Connecticut.