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Serigraph - "Connecticut Valley"

2019-79-1

Serigraph print entitled "Connecticut Valley" by Thomas McKnight. Landscape scene showing a town set on a series of rolling hills. Multiple structures visible, including a number of multi-story white houses with black roofs, smaller outbuildings, barns, and a white church with black roof and tall steeple. Plowed fields and paths also visible throughout town. Multiple birds sit on flowers and bushes in the immediate foreground. Behind them, a man with fishing poles walks with two dogs on a path while another reclines in the lower-left of the scene. A figure rows a boat in a lake or pond to the far right, with a second figure waiting on shore and a third crossing a stone bridge that passed over a river leading from the lake. Multiple other figures visible in the distance. The landscape meets the skyline about 2/3 of the way up the image, with the sun just visible above the hills (either setting or rising). Thin, puffy clouds in the sky. Signed in pencil at lower-right, "McKnight" and marked in pencil at lower-left, "AP 39/50." Stamped in black ink on reverse, "C THOMAS MCKNIGHT/1990."

Known for his colorful interior scenes and landscapes, Thomas McKnight was commissioned from 1994 to 1996 by the White House to paint scenes for President Clinton's official Christmas card.

AP stands for Artist's Proof.

• Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts
• McKnight, Thomas

c.1990

Unframed. Overall height 30", width 42"

• ink
• ink
• paper
• paper