Find out out about Dame Laura Knight DBE, RA, RWS (1877 - 1970)
She was the official war artist at the Nuremburg Trials after World War 2.
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About Laura Knight
She studied at Nottingham School of Art and in 1898 she moved to Staithes, where she set up a Studio.
From 1903 she exhibited at the Royal Academy and in the same year she married the artist Harold Knight (1874 - 1961), changing her surname from Johnson.
At first they lived in an artist's colony in Staithes, North Yorkshire, until moving to Newlyn, Cornwall, in 1907 where they became leading members of the Newlyn School of Artists.
In 1919 she moved to St. John's Wood, which was to be the base for the remainder of her life.
Although Knight painted various subjects, her reputation was founded on paintings of the ballet and the circus. She painted backstage at the Diaghilev ballet's sessions in London and took lessons at Tillers dance academy in St Martin's Lane in order to draw there. She also traveled with the Mills and Carmos Circus.
An accomplished portraitist, she painted wartime commissions and was an official war artist at the Nuremburg War Trials.
Based on a narrative from ArtNet - revised by me)
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Learn More about Dame Laura Knight DBE, RA, RWS
Autobiographies, Biographies, Articles, Works included in Books on Dame Laura Knight DBE RA - The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of ... - Google Book Search
- an extract relating to Laura Knight from 'The Obstacle Race' by Germaine Greer
- National Gallery of Australia - The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires | Self-portrait
- Biography of Laura Knight
Dame Laura Knight DBE (1877 - 1970)
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Dame Laura Knight, DBE (4 August 1877 - 7 July 1970) was an English Impressionist painter who garnered fame for capturing the world of London's theatre, ballet and circus.
"'An ebullient vitality made me want to paint the whole world and say how glorious it was to be young"
Images produced by Dame Laura Knight
- The Official Dame Laura Website: Examples of Works
- Examples of works
- The Official Dame Laura Website: Commercial Images
- Commercial Images
- Dame Laura Knight on artnet
- Artworks for sale and past auction results for works by Dame Laura Knight
- Fine Art Museums of San Francisco - Images by Dame Laura Knight
- Images by Dame Laura Knight in the permanent collection
Exhibitions of work by Dame Laura Knight
- The Official Dame Laura Website: Public Displays
- Public art galleries and museums which own work by Dame Laura Knight
(Note: this may not be on display) - Nottingham Castle Exhibitions: Laura Knight at the Theatre
- Laura Knight at the Theatre
Paintings and drawings of the ballet and stage
19 July - 28 September 2008 - The Magic of a Line: Drawings by Dame Laura Knight RA - Library Print Room - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts
- Comprising 19 drawings by Dame Laura Knight RA (1877-1970) alongside a selection of the artist's sketchbooks, this display represents the culmination of a project to catalogue a sizeable collection of her work that is held at the Royal Academy.
- Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service: From Victorian to Modern:
- From Victorian to Modern:
Innovation and Tradition in the work of Vanessa Bell, Gwen John and Laura Knight
Saturday 28 April - Sunday 17 June 2007
Norwich Union and Bernard Matthews Galleries
Articles about Laura Knight
- In Brief: Sotheby's - ARTINFO.com
- Dame Laura Knight at Sotheby's London Jul. 15: Victorian and Edwardian Art
LONDON-Top lot: Dame Laura Knight's 1911 watercolor on linen Wind and Sun brought £914,850 ($1,498,158), accounting for almost a third of the house's sales total and setting a new auction record for the English Impressionist. Knight was the first artist to be made Dame.
BOOKS: About Dame Laura Knight and her work
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Laura Knight wrote an autobiography entitled "The Magic of a Line - the autobiography of Laura Knight",
Other books about her work (not all of which are easily available) include:
- "Dame Laura Knight" by Caroline Fox,
- "Laura Knight" by Janet Dunbar, and
- "The Graphic Work of Laura Knight, including a catalogue raisonne of her prints" by G Fredric Bolling and Valerie A. Withington.
R. John Croft is also preparing a Catalogue Raisonne on both Laura's work, and that of her husband Harold Knight.
Dame Laura Knight
Laura Knight (1877-1970) was the first woman artist to be made a Dame of the British Empire. Her work covers a variety of subjects from the Nuremberg trials to her portrayals of London's theatre and ballet. This first critical appraisal of her work includes extracts from her autobiographies
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The Graphic Work of Laura Knight: Including a Catalogue Raisonne of Her Prints
This work considers the full range of the work of Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) - her drawings, linocuts, lithographs and etchings. The first part of the book illustrates her prints and drawings, accompanied by quotes from her writings, and the second part is a catalogue raisonnee.
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From Victorian to Modern: Laura Knight, Vanessa Bell, Gwen John 1890-1920
The book examines the impact of modernism on the work of three women artists - Laura Knight (b. 1877), Vanessa Bell (b. 1879) and Gwen John (b. 1876) - whose training and early artistic careers were rooted in the Victorian tradition. The book ranges them alongside each other to examine and compare their development, their work and the positions they took in the crucial years of their careers between 1890 and 1920. Gerrish Nunn casts a new light on each artist, putting their works into a comparative context and other neglected works into a critical conversation which illuminates women's participation in the important question of how British art negotiated the challenge posed by Post-Impressionism, abstraction, significant form and the demise of narrative anecdote at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Catalogue of works by Dame Laura Knight, D.B.E., R.A: Which will be sold by auction by Sotheby & Co
Catalogue of Works by Dame Laura Knight, D.B.E., R.A.: Which Will be Sold by Auction by Sotheby & Co
By Laura Knight, Dame Laura Knight, Sotheby & Co. (London, England), England Sotheby & Co. (London
Published by Sotheby & Co., 1970
Sale Date: Thursday, November 26, 1970.
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Dame Laura Knight, Nottingham Castle, July 11th to August 2nd
Dame Laura Knight: Exhibition Held at Nottingham Castle July 11th to August 2nd as Part of the Nottingham Festival, 1970
By Laura Knight, Dame Laura Knight, Nottingham Castle Museum, David Phillips
Published by The Museum, 1970
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