Description
This book celebrates the extraordinary breadth of Laura Knight’s talent and the outstanding achievements of her long life. A senior Royal Academician, highly acclaimed war artist, Dame of the British Empire – and champion of hard-working dancers, musicians, actors, circus people and Gypsy dynasties.
Five leading experts on Laura Knight have contributed essays covering her early years, the flowering of her work in Cornwall before the First World War, through her portraiture to her later years in London and Malvern.