Louis Aston Knight Art

Louis Aston Knight 1873-1948 American The Giant Cities–London Signed "Aston Knight" (lower right) Oil on canvas This monumental landscape painting...

Louis Aston Knight 1873-1948 American The Giant Cities–New York Signed "Aston Knight" (lower right) Oil on canvas This monumental landscape painting...

Louis Aston Knight 1873-1948 American Springtime Signed "Aston Knight / Paris" (lower left) Oil on canvas A quintessential landscape scene by Parisian-born American artist Louis Aston Knight, this compelling composition demonstrates the artist's mastery of the genre. Son of legendary landscapist Daniel Ridgway Knight, Aston Knight devoted his life to landscape painting much like his father, maintaining the elder’s ideals of expressing the “true to life” splendors of the natural world. Aston Knight's Springtime is emblematic of this dogma. Here, the artist renders a series of humble countryside shanties built along the banks of a tranquil yet strong river. Though juxtaposed with man-made structures, the composition is a celebration of the river's fortitude and beauty. The water's strong current is a powerful lifeline for the terrain it runs through, cultivating and nourishing a robust natural landscape. Colorful wildflowers spring up along the banks, and thickets of trees and saplings grow along the river's curving edge. Sinuous branches reach out across the water. This composition showcases Knight's signature ability to render reflective water with a level of realism unmatched by his peers. Raised and educated in Europe, Aston Knight was surrounded by artists throughout his youth, including such figures as Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonnier, and gained his first elements of artistic education directly from his father. He later completed his formal artistic studies under the tutelage of the great French Romantic painters Robert Fleury and Jules Lefebvre. Knight's works differed from his father's in that they tended to take a more impressionistic style, a break from the senior’s photographic precision; he also rarely included figures in his works, instead focusing on the landscape's more ephemeral qualities. Despite these key idiosyncrasies, father and son shared an appreciation of nature and man’s role and impact upon it. Though Aston Knight did not visit the United States until he was in his thirties, he was a tremendous success both here and in Europe. His paintings even found favor among American presidents. President Warren G. Harding commissioned a work from Aston Knight for the White House, and his successor, President Calvin Coolidge, held a private exhibition of his works at the famed residence. This particular work was also once housed in a notable estate, the home of prominent Old Western film actor Eugene Iglesias...

A French landscape painting by Louis Aston Knight offers oil on board lake scene, artist signed lower right Aston Knight Paris, seated in giltwood frame, c1900 Measures - 21'' H x...

A very rare example of his works when he traveled to the south of France. Louis Aston Knight was the son of the American expatriate painter, Daniel Ridgway Knight. In 1873, Louis A...

Oil on artist board, signed and inscribed verso "My studio de la Pompe 147 in Paris 1914, sold to Andrew B. McCreery in 1915, Aston Knight" Louis Aston Knight (1873–1948) was a French-born American artist noted for his paintings of landscapes. One of his paintings, The Afterglow, was purchased by U.S. President Warren G. Harding in 1922 to hang in the White House. Aston Knight, the son of Daniel Ridgway Knight and Rebecca Morris...

Impressionist landscape painting of sunset by Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948). Gouache on board, circa 1900. Signed lower right, "Ashton Knight...

This Normandy riverscape signed Aston Knight, measures 25.5" x 32". Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948), was a French born American Impressionist 'plein-air' painter. Son of expatriate painter Daniel Ridgeway Knight...

Louis Aston Knight New York/California/France, 1873-1948 La Seine Près de Paris Oil on canvas signed lower right "Aston Knight/Paris" 32½ x 46 in. W/frame 40 ½ by 54 in. Carved in...