Laura Knight: Marginalised Muses and Gypsy Paintings
Mar 26, 2024 · Knight added a clown, elephant and horses to her illustration, which covered even the wrappers. Also commissioned by the Cadburys and included in the show is an endearing double portrait of Briony Cadbury and the family dog, ‘Briony and Sally’ (1930s).
Dame Laura Knight portraits - Art UK
Oct 1, 2013 · In the mid-1930s, Dame Laura Knight’s interest in communities on the margins of conventional society led her to spend a significant period of time painting at a Gypsy settlement in Iver, Buckinghamshire. The portraits she made there are …
Welcome To The Official Dame Laura Knight Website
The aim of this website is to promote the life and works of the United Kingdoms’ greatest and most famous female impressionist Artist – Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS, and also to recognise her husband Harold Knight, the famous 20th Century Portrait painter.
Knight, Laura, 1877–1970 - Art UK
In 1946 she went to Nuremberg to make a pictorial record of the War Criminals' Trial; she made scores of sketches from which she produced a large painting (The Dock, Nuremberg, 1946, Imperial War Mus., London). Her husband Harold Knight (1874–1961) was also a …
Laura Knight Portraits - National Portrait Gallery
Dame Laura Knight (1877–1970) was one of the leading British painters of the twentieth century. However, her rejection of Modernism and her association with the ‘mainstream’ led to a decline in her reputation, and since her death she has, to some extent, fallen into obscurity.
Laura Knight portraits - National Portrait Gallery
Oct 13, 2013 · Knight used portraiture to capture contemporary life and culture, and her paintings are remarkable for their diverse range of subjects and settings. This exhibition of over thirty portraits revealed Knight’s highly distinctive and vivid work, and also illustrated her success in gaining greater professional recognition for women in the arts.
Dame Laura Knight: Nottingham's unsung heroine who became …
Dec 6, 2023 · So give a nod to Laura if you find yourself riding the tram that bears her name. And the next time you’re at Lakeside Arts on the University of Nottingham campus, take a minute to gaze up at a grand, striking family portrait hanging in the Djanogly Gallery café.
Laura Knight - Wikipedia
Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS (née Johnson; 4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970 [1]) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism .
Laura Knight: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery - exhibition review
Aug 12, 2013 · Her biggest and boldest portrait, of Lamorna Birch and his Daughters, she began in 1916; left unfinished, she pulled it from the racks in her studio for exhibition in 1934, when Birch was...
Laura Knight 1877-1970 : WestminsterResearch - University of …
Various portrait drawings and paintings (including Dressing the Children, c.1907) based on family subjects, with Knight VO on her mother’s terminal illness, and the poverty the family faced, on living in two rooms with her sister and subsisting mainly on porridge.
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