Following a year of graduate study in art history at Columbia University, McKnight joined Time Magazine in 1964, where he remained for eight years—his tenure briefly interrupted by military service in South Korea. In 1972, he left journalism to pursue painting full-time, spending a transformative summer on the Greek island of Mykonos. The island’s radiant light and idyllic architecture would become central to his visual vocabulary. It was there, in 1979, that he met Renate, an Austrian student who would later become his wife and muse. By the 1980s, McKnight’s vibrant serigraphs had garnered wide acclaim, their distinctive aesthetic merging classical harmony with contemporary whimsy. In 1994, the White House commissioned McKnight to create the first of three official Christmas card images f.
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