(b Great Falls, MT, 14 Dec 1890; d New York, 22 Oct 1954). American designer and painter, active in England. He studied painting first, at evening classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute, San Francisco (1910-12), at the Art Institute of Chicago, with lettering (1912), and in Paris at the Acad?mie Moderne (1913-14). In 1912 he adopted the name of an early patron, Professor Joseph McKnight (1865-1942), as a gesture of gratitude. In 1914 he settled in Britain.

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