Study of a Young Woman
<p>The English artist Laura Knight made this moving portrait during a period when she was living in Baltimore while her husband completed some portrait commissions for Johns Hopkins Hospital. Visiting the segregated African American wards, she was struck by the beauty and abundance of new subject matter that she found there.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1926
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 39.7 × 28.4 cm (15 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.5 × 40 cm (18 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Laura Knight
Artist
Painting
Noteworthy as the first female artist elected to the Royal Academy for full membership – nearly two centuries after the eminent institution's founding – British painter and printmaker Laura Knight was instructed in the academic tradition but was enticed by the openness and luminosity of Impressionism. She was especially celebrated for her dynamic evocations of dancers and circus performers, about which art historian Timothy Wilcox said, “Knight's conquest of movement was a metaphor for all that she set herself to overcome as a woman artist.”
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- Laura Knight
- Year
- 1926
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 39.7 × 28.4 cm (15 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.5 × 40 cm (18 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1926-136405
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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