The Art of the deal
Fine arts studio to close after 50 years of southern works
Like many modern love affairs, Dave Knoke’s 50-year
relationship with art started as a casual thing.
Way back in the 1960s, the young bank executive had a
penchant for collecting. It was a tic he’d picked up from his
father, who amassed coins, stamps and Civil War weapons. Knoke
himself first got the bug over Tiffany lamps. Then he found paintings.
“It’s a hobby that turned into a business,” as Knoke puts it,
hunched over his desk at Knoke Fine Arts in Marietta. “It’s not like
selling shoes at Sears. I mean, it’s in your blood.”
Written by CHART RIGGALL
Photos by ROBIN RAYNE
10 COBB LIFE | DECEMBER 2021