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Article: A friend of Van Gogh: Dodge Macknight and the post-impressionists: despite being widely admired in his lifetime, the American artist Dodge Macknight is now largely forgotten. Martin Bailey reconstructs Macknight's life in Europe in the 1880s and 1890s, revealing new information about his famous friends, including Van Gogh and Sisley.(Vincent Van Gogh, Alfred Sisley)(Biography)
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Although the American artist Dodge Macknight currently languishes in obscurity, he was once a friend of many of the impressionists and post-impressionists. Macknight, who was born in 1860 and died in 1950, studied and worked in France from 1884 to 1897, and the untold story of his early years throws new light on his more famous contemporaries. At one point he was close to Van Gogh, who suggested that Macknight should move into the Yellow House in Aries with him, before the arrival of Gauguin. Macknight also knew Sisley, and a letter from him suggests that Sisley may have made a previously unrecorded visit to Cornwall.
Macknight was highly regarded, and in 1921 he ...
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