Winifred Knights 1899-1947

Winifred Knights 1899-1947

By Sacha Llewellyn

£55.00

Publication Date: 16th May 2016

  • Winner of the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017
  • Provides the first full account of the life and work of Winifred Knights, drawing on previously unpublished documentary material, including letters, diaries, sketchbooks and photographs
  • Published in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery to accompany the first-ever museum exhibition of Knights' work


    Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century. Copiously illustrated in colour throughout, this book provides the first full account of her life and work, examining Knights’ art in the context of interwar Modernism and assessing her contribution to the revival in this period of both Decorative Painting and religious imagery.

    Author Sacha Llewellyn traces the artist’s career from her years at the Slade School of Art and her First World War evacuation to rural Worcestershire through... Read More
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  • Winner of the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017
  • Provides the first full account of the life and work of Winifred Knights, drawing on previously unpublished documentary material, including letters, diaries, sketchbooks and photographs
  • Published in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery to accompany the first-ever museum exhibition of Knights' work


    Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century. Copiously illustrated in colour throughout, this book provides the first full account of her life and work, examining Knights’ art in the context of interwar Modernism and assessing her contribution to the revival in this period of both Decorative Painting and religious imagery.

    Author Sacha Llewellyn traces the artist’s career from her years at the Slade School of Art and her First World War evacuation to rural Worcestershire through... Read More
Description
    Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century. Copiously illustrated in colour throughout, this book provides the first full account of her life and work, examining Knights’ art in the context of interwar Modernism and assessing her contribution to the revival in this period of both Decorative Painting and religious imagery.

    Author Sacha Llewellyn traces the artist’s career from her years at the Slade School of Art and her First World War evacuation to rural Worcestershire through to the time she spent at the British School at Rome in the early 1920s and the many commissions she completed between 1926 and 1939. Presenting the artist as the central protagonist, and with models selected from her inner circle, Knights’ paintings were deeply autobiographical. She consistently re-wrote fairy-tale and legend, Biblical narrative and Pagan mythology to explore women’s relationship to war, the natural world, working communities, marriage, motherhood and death.

    Drawing on previously unpublished documentary material, including letters, diaries, sketchbooks and photographs, Sacha Llewellyn makes a strong case for recognising Knights as one of the most talented artists of her generation. The book reproduces all of Knights’ major works, including her masterpiece, The Deluge, which is among the most remarked upon works at Tate Britain, having been on almost permanent display there since 1995.
Details
  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Publication Date: 16th May 2016
  • Trim Size: 228 x 270 mm
  • Illustration Note: Includes 160 colour and 5 b&w illustrations
  • ISBN: 9781848221772
Reviews
'This captivating show and excellent catalogue are a remarkable tribute' Evening Standard
Author Bio
Sacha Llewellyn is an independent researcher and curator and Director of Liss Llewellyn Fine Art with a particular interest in the Rome Scholars, 1913–30, the Art of the First World War and interwar British modernism. She is guest curator of the Winifred Knights survey show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (2016) and author of essays on Colin Gill and Knights’ The Deluge in British Murals and Decorative Painting, 1920–60 (2013).
Table of Contents
Director's Foreword; Introduction: Winifred Knights 1899-1947: In Search of Paradise; Chapter 1: The Early Years 1899-1915; Chapter 2: The Slade School of Art (Part 1) 1915-1917; Chapter 3: Worcestershire 1917-1918; Chapter 4: The Slade School of Art (Part 2), October 1918 - September 1919; Chapter 5: The Slade (Part 3): Decorative Painting; Chapter 6: The Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting, 1920; Chapter 7: Italy (Part 1), 1920-2; Chapter 8: Italy (Part 2), 1921-1923; Chapter 9 Italy (Part 3), 1924-1925; Chapter 10: England 1926-1933; Postscript: England 1934-1947; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.
    Winifred Knights (1899-1947) is one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century. Copiously illustrated in colour throughout, this book provides the first full account of her life and work, examining Knights’ art in the context of interwar Modernism and assessing her contribution to the revival in this period of both Decorative Painting and religious imagery.

    Author Sacha Llewellyn traces the artist’s career from her years at the Slade School of Art and her First World War evacuation to rural Worcestershire through to the time she spent at the British School at Rome in the early 1920s and the many commissions she completed between 1926 and 1939. Presenting the artist as the central protagonist, and with models selected from her inner circle, Knights’ paintings were deeply autobiographical. She consistently re-wrote fairy-tale and legend, Biblical narrative and Pagan mythology to explore women’s relationship to war, the natural world, working communities, marriage, motherhood and death.

    Drawing on previously unpublished documentary material, including letters, diaries, sketchbooks and photographs, Sacha Llewellyn makes a strong case for recognising Knights as one of the most talented artists of her generation. The book reproduces all of Knights’ major works, including her masterpiece, The Deluge, which is among the most remarked upon works at Tate Britain, having been on almost permanent display there since 1995.
  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Publication Date: 16th May 2016
  • Trim Size: 228 x 270 mm
  • Illustrations Note: Includes 160 colour and 5 b&w illustrations
  • ISBN: 9781848221772
'This captivating show and excellent catalogue are a remarkable tribute' Evening Standard
Sacha Llewellyn is an independent researcher and curator and Director of Liss Llewellyn Fine Art with a particular interest in the Rome Scholars, 1913–30, the Art of the First World War and interwar British modernism. She is guest curator of the Winifred Knights survey show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (2016) and author of essays on Colin Gill and Knights’ The Deluge in British Murals and Decorative Painting, 1920–60 (2013).
Director's Foreword; Introduction: Winifred Knights 1899-1947: In Search of Paradise; Chapter 1: The Early Years 1899-1915; Chapter 2: The Slade School of Art (Part 1) 1915-1917; Chapter 3: Worcestershire 1917-1918; Chapter 4: The Slade School of Art (Part 2), October 1918 - September 1919; Chapter 5: The Slade (Part 3): Decorative Painting; Chapter 6: The Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting, 1920; Chapter 7: Italy (Part 1), 1920-2; Chapter 8: Italy (Part 2), 1921-1923; Chapter 9 Italy (Part 3), 1924-1925; Chapter 10: England 1926-1933; Postscript: England 1934-1947; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.

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