Property of the Artist 



Study for painting of setters 



One of jVIr. Knight's best known paintings is of the two prize winning collies. Blue Prince and 

 Wishaw Clinker, which belonged to the late Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan 



Mr. Knight is known to the world 

 however as a painter and sculptor of 

 modern animals also, and New York has 

 recently had the unusual opportunity of 

 seeing a large collection of his work in a 

 public exhibition at the Museum. Hith- 

 erto he has been known by the people 

 who have seen one or more of his scat- 

 tered works, those 

 for instance in the 

 homes of Mrs. J. 

 Pierpont Morgan or 

 of Professor Henry 

 Fairfield Osborn, of 

 Mrs. Dean Sage of 

 Albany, of Mrs. 

 Archibald Rogers 

 and Mrs. E. H. 

 Harriman of New 

 York. Some have 

 seen his work at 

 Woods Hole where "^ 

 he often spends the 



Jaguar head in pencil 



summer, given every facility through the 

 courtesy of the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries stationed there and of the Ma- 

 rine Biological Laboratory. He particu- 

 larly excels in these fish paintings, whether 

 the canvas is of highly decorative charac- 

 ter such as the panels owned by Professor 

 Osborn or those more directly scientific, 

 like the series of 

 shark paintings com- 

 pleted for the United 

 States Government 

 in the summer of 

 1913. Others have 

 known his models of 

 the African elephant 

 heads on the north 

 facade of the new 

 elephant house in 

 the Bronx Zoological 

 Park — a commis- 

 sion gained through 

 an a n o n y m o us 



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