With more than 160 works, this ambitious retrospective highlights Knight’s considerable achievements in the context of women’s rights and her evident skill. What it fails to ...
This small but delightful display, comprising largely sketches from the RA’s collection, beautifully illustrates the key themes of Knight’s working life: the countryside, the...
... not paint”33 – as an Associate Royal Academician, that a woman followed in the footsteps of Kauffman and Moser; Laura Knight followed Swynnerton in 1927, going on to b...
... nomination for election) throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, there was not to be another female Royal Academician – after Kauffman and Moser – until Laura Knight i...
... sun-soaked scene contrasts the cove’s natural beauty with the damage wreaked by industry. The Cornish light also inspired Laura Knight, whose outstanding watercolour Men...
... in the old days; they were not allowed the education … At last they are having their chance. [Laura Knight, 1930]
This quote by Laura Knight captures well the mood an...
... self-possessed yet frank Self-Portrait (1902), Dame Laura Knight’s rainy-day Cactus (c1939), the sun-saturated post-impressionist reveries of Bell – are interesting as...
... relationship with the painter Clara Christian, with whom she lived and worked in the 1880s, Laura Knight, who in 1936 became the first woman to be elected a Royal Academic...
... the captivity of young girls. Beside Carrington’s paintings, there are two by Laura Knight, who travelled around Britain with the Bertram Mills and Great Carmo’s circu...
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