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watercolours, often painting in muted, shadowy tones. Lack of money for expensive materials meant she produced few oil paintings at this time. Local children would sit for her, for pennies, giving her the opportunity to develop her figure painting technique. Less successful at this time were her landscape and thematic works. Although she painted on the moors, high inland from
Staithes, she did not consider herself successful at resolving these studies into finished pieces. Later she recalled:
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Academy and the next day was reproduced in eight British newspapers. The painting, along with Knight and Loftus, also featured in a British Paramount News short film shown in cinemas, and was reproduced in a poster version by WAAC. The success of the painting led to further industrial commissions for Knight throughout the 1940s. In 1945 she painted
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and several civic dignitaries opening the new
Broadgate Centre in Coventry. A period of illness affected her work on this commission, and, despite Knight's repainting large parts of the canvas, the finished painting was not well received. A major exhibition of over eighty works by Knight was held at
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horses and a plough from a farmer and painted them outdoors in a cherry orchard on
Averills' farm in Worcestershire. Her original design for the WLA poster was rejected for placing too much emphasis on the horses rather than the women working. A new design, with a single woman, was accepted. Knight
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Britain with the combined Bertram Mills and Great Carmo's Circus. Painting within a working circus forced Knight to paint at great speed, as the performers rarely had much time to pose. Knight responded by painting directly onto the canvas without any
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Knights found themselves among a group of sociable and energetic artists, which appears to have allowed the more vivid and dynamic aspects of Laura's personality to
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Yorkshire coast, for a holiday and soon returned, accompanied by her sister Evangeline Agnes, to live and work there. In Staithes Laura drew the people of the fishing village and the surrounding farms, showing the hardship and poverty of their lives. She made studies, paintings and
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car, which was large enough to accommodate her easel. Often pairs of Gypsy women would pose at the open door of the Rolls-Royce, with the race-day crowds in the background. From Epsom, Knight was invited to the Gypsy settlement at
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exhibition, at the Alpine Club in 1930, was heavily criticised in art journals, but her paintings of more mundane subjects, such as domestic interiors and London streets, were highly praised. Notable works from this period include
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manner, often on the rocks or cliff-tops around Lamorna. Knight would sometimes use models from London who were prepared to pose nude. Although there was some resentment locally about this, the landowner, Colonel Paynter of
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in 1909, and was considered a great success, showing Laura painting in a more Impressionist style than she had displayed previously. Around this time she began painting compositions of women in the open air, in the
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in 1913, painting in a wood in the Lamorna Valley but then kept the painting unfinished in her studio until finally completing it in 1934, the same year Birch was elected a full member of the Royal Academy.
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as a subject. The Committee agreed, and Knight went to Germany in January 1946 and spent three months observing the main trial from inside the courtroom. The result was the large oil painting,
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in West London. Mills' circus was a highly polished show with internationally renowned performers. Knight painted some of these performers, such as the clown Whimsical Wilson, several times.
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was shown at the Royal Academy in 1916 but later reworked. Several others were completed from studies in the Knights' first London studio after they moved to the capital in 1919.
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of artists who had been painting in remote rural communities since the 1850s. The Knights made a third trip to Laren in 1906 before spending that winter in
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newsreel produced to mark her election as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1927. Another portrait of Johnson,
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3098:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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2990:"Dame Laura Knight RA: In the Open Air"
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2344:. London: Eiderdown Books. p. 24.
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1423:1965: Diploma Galleries, Royal Academy,
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2710:"Art: Corporal J M Robins, MM, WAAF"
2606:"Dame Knight, Laura, RA (1877–1970)"
2533:. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 219.
2482:Clarice Cliff the Art of the Bizarre
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1687:. National Portrait Gallery,London.
1527:Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
1354:, with Ella Naper and Lamorna Birch,
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3796:Corporal J. D. M. Pearson, GC, WAAF
3184:Laura Knight - Modern Women Artists
2876:20th Century Painters and Sculptors
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1951:Penlee House Gallery & Museum.
1924:Penlee House Gallery & Museum.
1514:, Penlee House Gallery and on tour,
1489:, Djanogly Art Gallery and on tour,
1465:Women Artists in Cornwall 1880–1940
938:Corporal J. D. M. Pearson, GC, WAAF
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816:. During one such visit Knight met
655:Corporal J. D. M. Pearson, GC, WAAF
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3958:Royal Society of Portrait Painters
3898:Alumni of Nottingham School of Art
3893:20th-century English women artists
3812:Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring
3281:New Woman of the late 19th century
3169:
3074:. Greenwood. pp. 1236, 1237.
3007:National Portrait Gallery (2013).
2912:Dame Laura Knight Official website
1768:"Laura Knight: Portraits – review"
1282:Royal Society of Portrait Painters
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2908:"Literature on Dame Laura Knight"
2734:Jack Lazenby (2 September 2020).
2579:Rosie Broadley (1 October 2013).
1953:"The Newlyn School c.1880–c.1940"
1523:National Portrait Gallery, London
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3037:Adrian Hamilton (22 July 2013).
2941:Laura Knight: A Book of Drawings
2281:Judith Mackrell (24 June 2008).
2258:The Women's Land Army A Portrait
1551:, 13 January 2024 - 30 June 2024
1545:Dame Laura Knight: I Paint Today
1184:Laura Knight: A Book of Drawings
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1457:1989: Nottingham Castle Museum,
1433:1970: Nottingham Castle Museum,
1307:Royal Institute of Oil Painters
1250:1927: Elected associate of the
1229:1909: Elected associate of the
930:War Artists' Advisory Committee
433:Lamorna Birch and his Daughters
415:Another work from this time is
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2051:P.L Henderson (19 July 2022).
1534:Laura Knight: A Panoramic View
1366:Pictures of the Russian Ballet
1323:, Ernst Brown & Phillip's
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3963:British women autobiographers
3888:20th-century English painters
3528:(Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright)
3193:(Royal Academy of Arts, 2022)
2581:"Dame Laura Knight portraits"
1588:
1512:Laura Knight: In the Open Air
1359:Camp Life and Other Paintings
1341:, and again in 1914 and 1924,
1238:Royal West of England Academy
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885:(1943) (Art. IWM ART LD 2750)
769:in Amsterdam, Knight won the
707:Charivari or The Grand Parade
505:(1913), was purchased by the
285:
3667:The Case of Rebellious Susan
3191:Laura Knight: A Working Life
3115:UK public library membership
3072:Women's Studies Encyclopedia
2878:. Antique Collectors' Club.
2681:Arifa Akbar (8 April 2011).
2452:Lucy Ellis (10 April 2020).
2161:Tessa Hadley (6 July 2013).
2035:Painting in Newlyn 1900–1930
1872:Laura Knight in the open air
1629:UK public library membership
1460:1991: David Messum Fine Art,
1454:1988: David Messum Fine Art,
1441:Painting in Newlyn 1900–1930
1382:1922: Alpine Club Galleries,
1280:1960: Elected Member of the
1126:Birmingham Repertory Theatre
1109:Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
907:(1943) (Art.IWM ART LD 3834)
753:tableware range produced by
671:Madonna of the Cotton Fields
657:(1940) (Art. IWM ART LD 626)
608:'s printing press and began
590:Birmingham Repertory Theatre
482:Passmore Edwards Art Gallery
427:and it was purchased by the
325:In 1894, the couple visited
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3983:20th-century women painters
3633:The Story of a Modern Woman
2403:. london transport museum.
2311:. London: Eiderdown Books.
1730:Lydia Figes (7 July 2020).
1494:Laura Knight at the Theatre
1487:From Victorian to Modern...
1377:Manchester City Art Gallery
1081:Nuremberg war crimes trials
949:, WAAF, a recipient of the
947:Women's Auxiliary Air Force
546:Physical Training in a Camp
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3968:Women of the Victorian era
3490:Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3359:Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
3070:. In Helen Tierney (ed.).
2629:"War through women's eyes"
2484:. Pavilion Books Limited.
2340:Strickland, Alice (2019).
2307:Strickland, Alice (2019).
2220:Barbara C. Morden (2014).
2082:Catherine Wallace (2002).
1870:Elizabeth Knowles (2012).
1373:Pictures of Modern Artists
1191:Oil Paint and Grease Paint
953:, later exchanged for the
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290:Laura Johnson was born in
257:In 1929 she was created a
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3129:"Annie Swynnerton, A.R.A"
3066:Julia M. Gergits (1999).
3017:National Portrait Gallery
2769:. Yale University Press.
1231:Royal Watercolour Society
1224:Newlyn Society of Artists
1116:the Ian Nicol Gallery in
1073:The Nuremberg Trial, 1946
1054:Betty and William Jacklin
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740:Spring in St. John's Wood
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3804:A Balloon Site, Coventry
3705:Mrs. Warren's Profession
3404:Wilhelmina Weber Furlong
3240:Poster designs by Knight
2970:. cornwall artists index
2968:"Laura Knight (details)"
2846:Kathleen Palmer (2011).
2480:Leonard Griffin (1999).
2260:. Sansom & Company.
2224:. McNidder & Grace.
1926:"Laura Knight 1877–1970"
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1389:, Alpine Club Galleries,
1321:Dutch Life and Landscape
1269:Society of Women Artists
1243:1925: Elected member of
1236:1913: Elected member of
1167:Art Gallery and Museum.
1000:A Balloon Site, Coventry
941:(1940) – shows Corporal
915:, WLA. Knight hired two
883:A Balloon Site, Coventry
787:Society of Women Artists
771:Silver Medal in Painting
751:Modern Art for the Table
728:Susie and the Wash-basin
576:. Her subjects included
307:Nottingham School of Art
112:Nottingham School of Art
3918:English autobiographers
3903:Artists from Nottingham
3788:Self Portrait with Nude
3409:Elizabeth Shippen Green
3399:Susan Stuart Frackelton
3244:London Transport Museum
3186:(Eiderdown Books, 2019)
3131:. Royal Academy of Arts
3068:"Royal Academy of Arts"
2111:. Thames & Hudson.
1683:Rosie Broadley (2013).
1609:"Knight , Dame Laura".
806:Malvern, Worcestershire
687:National Gallery of Art
475:Self Portrait with Nude
467:Self Portrait with Nude
461:Self Portrait with Nude
452:Self Portrait with Nude
441:Self Portrait with Nude
311:South Kensington Museum
277:and circus performers.
3948:People from Long Eaton
3923:English women painters
3585:The Portrait of a Lady
3384:Alice Brown Chittenden
3364:Julia Margaret Cameron
3107:10.1093/ref:odnb/60287
3011:Laura Knight Portraits
2558:. Lennard Publishing.
2427:Alicia Foster (2004).
2107:Carolyn Trant (2019).
1685:Laura Knight Portraits
1621:10.1093/ref:odnb/34349
1519:Laura Knight Portraits
1428:Posthumous exhibitions
1410:, Newcastle upon Tyne,
1401:Art Gallery of Ontario
1368:, Leicester Galleries,
1361:, Leicester Galleries,
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558:conscientious objector
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3693:The Romance of a Shop
3444:Elizabeth Okie Paxton
3293:19th-century feminism
3230:Works by Laura Knight
3153:Royal Academy of Arts
2399:David Bownes (2018).
2033:Caroline Fox (1985).
2001:Caroline Fox (1988).
1124:in London during the
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3459:Jessie Willcox Smith
2918:on 16 September 2013
2827:on 15 September 2017
2256:Gill Clarke (2008).
1476:Painting at the Edge
1469:Falmouth Art Gallery
1449:Barbican Art Gallery
1312:1903: Royal Academy
1222:1907: Member of the
1197:A Proper Circus Omie
801:paperback printing.
767:1928 Summer Olympics
699:Bertram Mills Circus
523:enameling techniques
410:Daughters of the Sun
183:Silver Medal at the
3908:British war artists
3712:George Bernard Shaw
3700:George Bernard Shaw
3628:Ella Hepworth Dixon
3515:Ella Hepworth Dixon
3454:Pamela Colman Smith
3394:Emma Lampert Cooper
3298:First-wave feminism
3234:Imperial War Museum
2815:The Nuremberg Trial
2765:Brain Foss (2007).
2714:Imperial War Museum
2658:Imperial War Museum
2610:Canadian War Museum
2556:Five Women Painters
2531:Great women artists
2431:. Tate Publishing.
2222:Laura Knight A Life
1874:. Sansom & Co.
1325:Leicester Galleries
1267:1932: President of
1203:The Magic of a Line
1157:The Magic of a Line
1085:The Nuremberg Trial
818:George Bernard Shaw
492:The Daily Telegraph
368:. There, alongside
131:The Nuremberg Trial
3953:Royal Academicians
3928:Lamorna Art colony
3663:Henry Arthur Jones
3374:Minerva J. Chapman
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3182:Alice Strickland,
2813:"Artwork in focus:
2641:on 4 January 2018.
2616:on 3 October 2012.
2429:Tate Women Artists
1445:Newlyn Art Gallery
1332:Life and Landscape
1113:Princess Elizabeth
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3113:(Subscription or
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2939:"Book Review for
2857:978-1-85437-989-4
2848:Women War Artists
2797:on 18 March 2016.
2776:978-0-300-10890-3
2410:978-1-871829-28-0
2380:. 13 October 2017
2351:978-1-9160416-3-9
2318:978-1-9160416-3-9
2267:978-1-904537-87-8
2003:Dame Laura Knight
1881:978-1-906593-65-0
1813:978-0-670-92229-1
1694:978-1-85514-463-7
1627:(Subscription or
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736:A Cottage Bedroom
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