The meticulous paintings of Winifred Knights
The meticulous paintings of Winifred Knights The artist’s output was vanishingly small, but extremely carefully composed. In the course of her career, Winifred Knights reversed the traditional artistic trajectory. She had little trouble in becoming a painter and none at all in winning early acclaim and glittering prizes. Where she struggled was in producing the pictures to sustain her reputation and grow into a figure of substance. It was a struggle she eventually lost. Knights’s output was vanishingly small, perhaps as few as five significant works over a career of more than 25 ...
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