Laura Knight
British, 1877-1970
Study of a Young Woman
INV-2153
Laura Knight
British, 1877-19701926
Study of a Young Woman
Laura Knight British, 1877-1970 →paperwatercolor
Date
1926
Medium
Watercolor, pastel, and charcoal on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laminated board
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Meg and Mark Hausberg Fund in honor of Martha Tedeschi
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.
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