Gwendolyn Knight
Gwendolyn Knight was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, in 1913. She moved to St. Louis, Missouri, with a family friend at the age of seven following her fathers death. However, she spent most of her teenage and youth years in Harlem, New York. She attended college at Howard University in Washington DC but had to drop out in her second year due to financial challenges brought about by the Great Depression of the 1930s. She returned to Harlem and joined the Savage School of Arts and Crafts (founded by sculptor Augusta Savage) to study sculpture and painting. In 1941, she married Jacob Lawrence, a fellow artist, whom she met as a result of her networks at the Savage School, and from whom she drew a life-long artistic inspiration. She served as an itinerant artist through the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, teaching art in several institutions, including the University of Washington in Seattle, and Black Mountain College (The...
She and her husband eventually moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1971, after her husband took up a teaching position at the University of Washingtons School of Art. Her first solo exhibition was hosted at the Seattle Art Museum in 1976,...…Her works advanced the foundations of the Harlem Renaissance by focusing on the history and culture of African Americans.Art Works
Knights works were mainly figural compositions that expressed her personal life experiences and those of close friends and family members. Her works were mostly images, portraits, or paintings, of dancing figures, musicians, and figures depicting family life. Unlike most artists at the time, who focused on developing abstract expressionist paintings, Knight explored emotional narratives and personal identity using her figurative prints and paintings.
Works Cited
Seattle Art Museum. Gwendolyn Knight. Seattle Art Museum, 2024. https://art.seattleartmuseum.org/objects/33545/gwendolyn-knight?ctx=1da0a3cd-6730-4ef3-95b9-e3dc6f05a039&idx=0
The Johnson Collection. Knight, Gwendolyn (1913-2005). The Johnson Collection, 2024.…
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