Daniel Ridgway Knight - All Artworks

In the 1954 Parke-Bernet auction catalog, there was some additional information about the painting: In a letter from Poissy, France, dated May 11, 1899, to Mrs. Emily V. Jackson, the painter refers to the picture as follows: “… In my extreme youth I painted a picture called “Ruth” for the Philadelphia Sketch Club. My sister…

Cutting Roses

Gabriel P. Weisberg writes in Collecting in the Gilded Age: Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890-1910 (pgs. 207 & 212): The vast number of anecdotal paintings that were purchased by collectors included works by other international artists, including Daniel Ridgway Knight, who was represented in several collections in Pittsburgh. By the 1880s Knight was enjoying a…