Gwendolyn Knight
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Gwendolyn Clarine Knight (May 26, 1913 – February 18, 2005) was an American artist who was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, but she didn't begin seriously exhibiting her work until the 1970s.
"Never Late for Heaven: The Art of Gwen Knight" at the Tacoma Art Museum in 2003, her first retrospective was held at the Tacoma Art Museum when she was nearly 90 years old.
Augusta Savage (who received help from the Works Progress Administration) and Jacob Lawrence, who married in 1941 and then lived married until his death in 2000, were among her art teachers.
She has received many accolades throughout her career, including the National Honor Award and two honorary doctorate degrees from University of Minnesota and Seattle University. Knight founded the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation in 2000, first to promote young artists' careers.
As Lawrence died, Knight disbanded the original foundation and modified her will, ensuring that the majority of the family's funds could be used to fund children's services.
Today's fundraising efforts are devoted to the upkeep of a website that was not launched in 2000.
The Artists Rights Society is the United States copyright representative for the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation in the United States.
Early life and education
Knight was born in 1913 in Barbados, West Indies. Her mother entrusted her to close relatives with whom she immigrated to the United States at the age of seven. She and her foster family were born in St. Louis, Missouri, and she and her foster family were first married there. She and her foster family moved to Harlem (New York City), where she graduated from Wadleigh High School in 1930. She attended Howard University, studying fine arts from 1931 to 1933. Knight had to drop out before receiving her degree due to the Great Depression.
Knight then returned to New York City, where she was stationed by the Works Projects Administration as an assistant to muralist Charles Alston. She continued to study art at the Harlem Community Art Center, where she was aided by Augusta Savage. She encountered or was exposed to Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden, Claude McKay, and other Harlem Renaissance writers through Savage.
Knight contributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural project in 1934, where she met her future husband and fellow painter Jacob Lawrence. In 1941, the couple were married in 1941. Josef Albers invited them to teach at Black Mountain College, which had started incorporating and incorporating African-American history into its curriculum a few years ago, a few years before the couple's time together. The couple met and lived in New York during the 1950s. They travelled to Nigeria in 1964, 1964. Lawrence accepted a position at the University of Washington's School of Art in 1971. The couple then moved to Seattle, where they served as active members of the artist community and the city itself. For her first one-woman exhibition, which was established in 1976, Knight also obtained assistance from The National Links, Inc. This exhibition sparked a renewed passion for her work and the acquisition of her works by national museums.
On February 18, 2005, Knight married Lawrence and died in Seattle at the age of 91.