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American Art

Sand Dunes, Cape Cod

Dodge MacKnight

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

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.

Caption

Dodge MacKnight (American, 1860–1950). 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)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Sand Dunes, Cape Cod

Date

before 1921

Medium

Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor over graphite on white, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper

Classification

Watercolor

Dimensions

17 1/4 x 24 1/16 in. (43.8 x 61.1 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right: "Dodge Macknight"

Markings

The paper's watermark: "IN ENGLAND / UNBLEACHED ARNO"

Credit Line

Frank Sherman Benson Fund and Frederick Loeser Fund

Accession Number

22.57

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Artists and makers

Dodge MacKnight

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