John H. B. Knowlton (1914-2013)

About the Artist

John H. B. Knowlton was born in New York City in 1914. He attended Dartmouth College and continued on to graduate school, where he studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College before entering the Navy at the start of World War II. At the conclusion of the War, Knowlton returned to New York to continue his studies and complete his Ph.D. Though he wrote his dissertation on the graphic works of the French artist Gustave Doré (1832-1883), he would later specialize in Renaissance and Baroque art. While in New York, he met Joan Aldrich, who he married in 1948.