Thomas McKnight Serigraph Central Park. Hand signed and numbered by the artist.

This is in excellent condition. Central Park Thomas McKnight Limited edition Serigraph, hand signed and numbered by the artist. Custom Framed. Approx 36x44. Includes certificate of authenticity. Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is a U.S. artist.He was born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas. He attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of only five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris.After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University, in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would work 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 following year.Throughout the 1980s McKnights art, mainly limited edition serigraph prints, became increasingly popular.[2] In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Clintons official Christmas card.One of these, White House Red Room, was used as the cover of a Lands End catalog, which sold both the art and the original as one of the Christmas gift items.McKnights work is represented in the permanent collection of New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in the Smithsonian Institution. McKnight and his wife live in Litchfield, Connecticut.