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Summer Exhibition 2009 Figure and landscape painter in oil and water colour, draughtsman and etcher. Born at Long Eaton, Derbyshire, she studied art under Wilson Foster at Nottingham School of Art, where she meet her husband, the painter Harold Knight. Together they painted at Staithes, near Whitby, where there was a small colony of artists. Between 1908-1918 they lived in Cornwall. Laura Knight exhibited first at the RA in 1903 and had a first exhibition with Harold at the Leicester Galleries three years later. She then began to exhibit widely in Britain and abroad. The Tate Gallery, British Museum and Imperial War Museum hold her work. |
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She was elected RA in 1936, having become Dame Laura Knight in 1929. Laura Knight was a powerful colourist and a prolific and strident draughtsman. She was especially fond of drawing scenes from the circus, ballet, music hall, racing and gypsy life. She worked for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during World War II, completing some excellent pictures, and then drew the war crimes at Nuremburg. Her autobiography is Oil Paint and Grease Paint, published in 1936. A retrospective was held at the Upper Grosvenor Galleries in 1969 and a large show at Nottingham Castle Museum in 1970. Lived in London. Taken from David Buckman Artist in Britain since 1945 |
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