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Study of a Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman

Laura Knight

1926

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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Description

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.

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Medium

Watercolor, pastel, and charcoal on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laminated board

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