Study of a Young Woman
Laura Knight
1926
- Medium
- Watercolor, pastel, and charcoal on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laminated board
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 39.7 × 28.4 cm (15 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.5 × 40 cm (18 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- paper
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
prints and drawingwatercolorpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
The English artist Laura Knight made this moving portrait during a period when she was living in Baltimore while her husband completed some portrait commissions for Johns Hopkins Hospital. Visiting the segregated African American wards, she was struck by the beauty and abundance of new subject matter that she found there.
