DOI Heft:
Nr. 340 (September 1925)
DOI Artikel:Flint, Ralph: Dodge Macknight, aquarellist
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0407
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"ENTRANCE TO FEZ" Owned by Denman Ross BY DODGE MACKNIGHT
days lasted for some three years when he took his by the directness with which he has expressed his
advancing talents into his own hands and de- impression." Elsewhere his color is found to be
camped for the Midi and Algeria. It was in this "pure and frank." A second exhibition at these
latter place that the real beginnings of his luminous galleries the following year brought thirty more
style were laid, and by the autumn of 1888, during watercolors before the Boston public, and showed
a sojourn in Moret, he had struck that peculiar the artist's color sense and technical procedure
freedom and intensity of technique and color clearer than before. The reception in the main
which was to take to such definite conclusions, as continued moderately favorable, though a few
definite and vital as any that the Frenchmen, also agitated onlookers took to their pens. One "close
engaged in solving the intricate problems of plein student of nature" found his "wildest dreams and
air painting, were to reach. He developed his imaginings thoroughly outraged by Macknight's
style quite outside the influence of the local prismatic productions" and opined that a week
French painters, being simply one of those artists or two in such lurid company would find his "eyes
who reacted to the impressionistic trend of pic- burned out by their color." Mr. Fitzgerald took
torial thought that was spreading over the world up the cudgels at this time in defense of Mac-
of art just then. knight with a fine enthusiasm which has never
It is extremely interesting to look over the list slackened, and he has been ever since his most
of Macknight's successive attempts to break in ardent champion and patron,
upon Boston as recorded in Desmond Fitzgerald's Macknight continued his artistic invasion of
monograph on this artist. His first public exhibi- the Hub with still another show the following
tion took place in the Park Street galleries of Doll year, and his two. score watercolors done on the
and Richards in 1888, and the thirty-five paint- Brittany coast only served to increase the doubl-
ings, done in Africa and France, were quite favor- barreled point of view that was springing up in
ably received by the critics and general public. Boston over the issues of impressionistic painting
The Herald gives the note of cautious appreciation in general and over Macknight in particular. The
in its "one feels the difference of atmosphere, Sunday Morning Gazette of that time referred to
color and architecture from those to which we are the exhibition as "the sensation of the week" and
accustomed, and the artist arouses our interest that "it seems hardly possible that educated men
SEPTEMBER I 9 2 J
jour hundred seven
"ENTRANCE TO FEZ" Owned by Denman Ross BY DODGE MACKNIGHT
days lasted for some three years when he took his by the directness with which he has expressed his
advancing talents into his own hands and de- impression." Elsewhere his color is found to be
camped for the Midi and Algeria. It was in this "pure and frank." A second exhibition at these
latter place that the real beginnings of his luminous galleries the following year brought thirty more
style were laid, and by the autumn of 1888, during watercolors before the Boston public, and showed
a sojourn in Moret, he had struck that peculiar the artist's color sense and technical procedure
freedom and intensity of technique and color clearer than before. The reception in the main
which was to take to such definite conclusions, as continued moderately favorable, though a few
definite and vital as any that the Frenchmen, also agitated onlookers took to their pens. One "close
engaged in solving the intricate problems of plein student of nature" found his "wildest dreams and
air painting, were to reach. He developed his imaginings thoroughly outraged by Macknight's
style quite outside the influence of the local prismatic productions" and opined that a week
French painters, being simply one of those artists or two in such lurid company would find his "eyes
who reacted to the impressionistic trend of pic- burned out by their color." Mr. Fitzgerald took
torial thought that was spreading over the world up the cudgels at this time in defense of Mac-
of art just then. knight with a fine enthusiasm which has never
It is extremely interesting to look over the list slackened, and he has been ever since his most
of Macknight's successive attempts to break in ardent champion and patron,
upon Boston as recorded in Desmond Fitzgerald's Macknight continued his artistic invasion of
monograph on this artist. His first public exhibi- the Hub with still another show the following
tion took place in the Park Street galleries of Doll year, and his two. score watercolors done on the
and Richards in 1888, and the thirty-five paint- Brittany coast only served to increase the doubl-
ings, done in Africa and France, were quite favor- barreled point of view that was springing up in
ably received by the critics and general public. Boston over the issues of impressionistic painting
The Herald gives the note of cautious appreciation in general and over Macknight in particular. The
in its "one feels the difference of atmosphere, Sunday Morning Gazette of that time referred to
color and architecture from those to which we are the exhibition as "the sensation of the week" and
accustomed, and the artist arouses our interest that "it seems hardly possible that educated men
SEPTEMBER I 9 2 J
jour hundred seven