The Luminous Legacy of Louis Aston Knight In the soft, dappled light of a French afternoon, one can almost feel the quiet pulse of nature through the canvases of Louis Aston Knight. Born in Paris in 1873, Knight was an artist whose very existence was steeped in the rich traditions of both European and American art. As the son of the celebrated American expatriate painter Daniel Ridgway Knight, Louis was raised within a world where the…