Laura Knight
English artist (1877-1970) · United Kingdom · On the map · Artists · Died at 92
Dame Laura Knight 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. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain.
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Land Army Girl (1944) (National Archives)
Corporal J. D. M. Pearson, GC, WAAF (1940) (Art. IWM ART LD 626)
A Balloon Site, Coventry (1943) (Art. IWM ART LD 2750)
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring (1943) (Art. IWM LD 2850)
Take Off (1943) (Art.IWM ART LD 3834)
The Nuremberg Trial, 1946 (1946) (Art. IWM ART LD 5798)Awards
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Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for female artists.
