Art Deco Salon with Manhattan Skyline, McKnight, Signed, Framed

About the Item

McKnight. Three tall arched windows with radiating fanlights fill the back wall of an elegant salon and open onto a dusk-blue skyline of setback skyscrapers and a terrace balustrade. Inside, everything is flattened into crisp decorative shapes: a powder-blue settee heaped with stylised red roses, a scalloped peach wing chair, a grey neoclassical fireplace, a spiky black palm, a fluted uplighter and a bowl of peaches on a wrought-iron table. The palette is pale and cool - lilac, dusty pink, powder blue, mint - laid down in flat, evenly graded areas typical of a hand-pulled serigraph. Float-mounted on a broad cream mat with a gold fillet in a pale ivory frame. Medium: serigraph (screenprint) on paper. Signed lower right, on the sheet below the image, reading "McKnight". Inscribed on the reverse or mount: McKnight (cursive signature, lower right below the image). Condition: No foxing, tears or discolouration visible through the glass. Considerable reflection and a photographer's silhouette across the glazing in most views.

About the Artist

Thomas McKnight, born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas, is an American artist celebrated for serigraphs of idealized interiors and terraces that open onto city or sea views, including Manhattan skylines. His work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian, and he designed White House Christmas cards in the mid 1990s.

Details

Creator:

Thomas McKnight

Creation Year:

1980s to 1990s

Dimensions:

Height: 34.4 in (87.38 cm)
Width: 36.6 in (92.96 cm)
outside of frame

Medium:

serigraph (screenprint) on paper

Period:

20Th

Condition:

Offered in the condition shown in the photographs.

Reference Number:

VO-121

Documentation:

no certificate photographed

Gallery Location:

McKnight (cursive signature, lower right below the image)