Laura Knight: A Life by Barbara C. Morden

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This probes beneath the myths and fictions woven around the artist, Laura Knight. It covers her early years in Nottingham; her relationship with her husband Harold; life in the artists colonies of Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, Laren in Holland and Newlyn in Cornwall; Laura’s subsequent immersion in the worlds of the ballet, the circus, the theatre and her travels in Europe and America; her work as a designer of theatrical costume, posters and ceramics; and her role as Official War Artist during World War 11 and recorder of the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-46.264pp