- Gwendolyn Knight
Gwendolyn Knight (
20 April ,1914 -February 18 ,2005 ) was anAfrican American sculptor fromBarbados , in theWest Indies .Knight painted through out her life, but she did not start seriously exhibiting her work until the 1970s. She would enjoy her first retrospective when she was nearly 80-years-old (2003's "Never Late for Heaven: The Art of Gwen Knight," at the Tacoma Art Museum) [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/obituaries/27knight.html | "New York Times" "Gwendolyn Knight, 91, Artist Who Blossomed Late in Life, Is Dead" By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT Published: February 27, 2005] ] . Her mentors in the arts included the sculptor
Augusta Savage (who obtained support for her from theWorks Progress Administration ) andJacob Lawrence , whom she would marry in 1941 and remain married to until his death in 2000 [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/obituaries/27knight.html | "New York Times" "Jacob Lawrence Is Dead at 82; Vivid Painter Who Chronicled Odyssey of Black Americans" By HOLLAND COTTER Published: June 10, 2000] ] . During the course of her career, she would receive many awards including theNational Honor Award , and two honorarydoctorate degree s.After her death in 2005, the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation was formally established. The Foundation not only serves as both her and Jacob Lawrence's official Estates, [ [http://www.jacobandgwenlawrence.org/ | The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation website] ] but its online presence contains a searchable archive of nearly 1,000 images of their work [ [http://www.jacobandgwenlawrence.org/artandlife04.html | The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation Website's Searchable Archive] ] . The U.S. copyright representative for the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation is the
Artists Rights Society [ [http://arsny.com/requested.html | Most frequently requested artists list of the Artists Rights Society] ] .ee also
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List of WPA artists References
* [http://www.black-collegian.com/issues/1999-08/afrart.shtml Gwendolyn Knight] A Living Legend Among Artists Young and Old Alike, by Robert G. Miller
External links
* [http://www.jacobandgwenlawrence.org/ The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation website]
* [http://www.arsny.com Artists Rights Society, Knight's U.S. Copyright Representatives]
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