Artist Keywords

Charles Robert Knight

Charles Robert Knight (1874 - 1953) was active/lived in New York.  Charles Knight is known for Animals in landscape painting-dinosaurs, sculpture.

Charles was an American artist best known for his influential paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.  His works have been reproduced in many books and exhibited at major museums in the United States.

As a child, Knight was deeply interested in nature and animals, and spent many hours copying the illustrations from his father's natural history books.  Though legally blind because of astigmatism and a subsequent injury to his right eye, Knight pursued his artistic talents with the help of specially-designed glasses, and at the age of twelve, he enrolled at the Metropolitan Art School to become a commercial artist.  In 1890, he was hired by a church-decorating firm to design stained-glass windows, and after two years with them, became a freelance illustrator for books and magazines, specializing in nature scenes.

In his free time, Knight visited the American Museum of Natural History, attracting the attention of Dr. Jacob Wort   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6128 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 72 auction lots for Charles Robert Knight (of which 56 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 1 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Charles Robert Knight as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Charles Robert Knight in 1 of its research Essays. Charles Robert Knight has 11 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Charles Robert Knight available:    Abastenia St Leger Eberle,  Mario Korbel,  John Held Jr,  Malvina Cornell Hoffman,  Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington,  De Scott (David) Evans,  Bruce Braithwaite,  Paul Howard Manship,  Felix François Georges Philibert Ziem,  Frederick William MacMonnies,  Lee Gatch Jr,  Alexander Phimister Proctor,  Doris Caesar,  William Chadwick,  Louis Agassiz Fuertes,  John Bunyan Bristol,  George Curtis,  Ludwig Bemelmans,  Cyrus Dallin,  Louis Comfort Tiffany,  Harriet Whitney Frishmuth,  Birge (Lovell Birge) Harrison,  Laura Coombs Hills,  Levi Wells Prentice