Sand Dunes, Cape Cod
Dodge MacKnight
American Art
A watercolor specialist for virtually his entire career, the Boston artist Dodge MacKnight pushed the medium’s potential for high-key color and the summary description of form in transparent washes. Brilliant, airy landscapes like this one were highly prized by his primary audience in Boston—a public that by 1900 was exceptionally receptive to the progressive Impressionist aesthetic. In the eyes of his admirers, MacKnight was no less than an equal to the revered John Singer Sargent.
MEDIUM
Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor over graphite on white, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper
DATES
before 1921
DIMENSIONS
17 1/4 x 24 1/16 in. (43.8 x 61.1 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
The paper's watermark: "IN ENGLAND / UNBLEACHED ARNO"
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right: "Dodge Macknight"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
22.57
CREDIT LINE
Frank Sherman Benson Fund and Frederick Loeser Fund
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Dodge MacKnight (American, 1860â1950). Sand Dunes, Cape Cod, before 1921. Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor over graphite on white, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, 17 1/4 x 24 1/16 in. (43.8 x 61.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Frank Sherman Benson Fund and Frederick Loeser Fund, 22.57 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 22.57_SL3.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 22.57_SL3.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2016
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