How Laura Knight Exposed War, Sex and Society Through Art
Who? The first woman ever to be elected a Royal Academician; first female artist to be named a Dame of the British Empire; president of the society of women painters; artist and social explorer Dame Laura Knight had a string of achievements to her name, but neither her entry into her life – a working class family in England – nor the late 19th and early 20th-century era in which she was working could have anticipated any one of them. Knight was born into a…

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