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Birth
1874 (Brooklyn, New York)
Death
1953 (New York City)
Lived/Active
New York
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animals in landscape painting-dinosaurs, sculpture
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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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 (showing 500 of 6499 characters). |
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