LOUIS ASTON KNIGHT - (1873 - 1948)

Aston Knight: Expressing the Poetry of Nature

Louis Aston Knight (son of the celebrated painter of French peasant life Daniel Ridgway Knight) was born in Paris on August 3, 1873. Aston Knight as he was known, followed in his father’s footsteps and painted in France and the United States until the middle of the twentieth century. 

spilling crimson says....By choice, Knight universally included bodies of water in his works. Bays, harbors, rivers and the world’s oceans all found their way onto his canvases.