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Zusatztext 'This captivating show and excellent catalogue are a remarkable tribute' Evening Standard Informationen zum Autor Sacha Llewellyn is an independent researcher and curator and Director of Liss Llewellyn Fine Art with a particular interest in the Rome Scholars, 1913-30, the Art of the First World War and interwar British modernism. She co-curated an exhibition, Alan Sorrell - A Life Reconstructed, for the Sir John Soane's Museum in 2013, and is guest curator of the Winifred Knights survey show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (2016). Her previous publications include essays on Colin Gill and Knights' The Deluge in British Murals and Decorative Painting, 1920-60 (2013); Alan Sorrell, The Life and Works of an English Neo-Romantic Artist (co. editor) (2013); and The Great War as Recorded through the Fine and Popular Arts (co. editor) (2014). Klappentext Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Winifred Knights" at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, June 8-September 18, 2016. Zusammenfassung Provides the account of the life and work of Winifred Knights (1899-1947), the first woman to win the Prix de Rome (1920) and one of the outstanding, but until recently neglected, British women painters of the first half of the 20th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Director's Foreword; Introduction: Winifred Knights 1899-1947: In Search of Paradise; Chapter 1: The Early Years 1899-1915; Chapter 2: The Slade School of Art (Part 1) 1915-1917; Chapter 3: Worcestershire 1917-1918; Chapter 4: The Slade School of Art (Part 2)! October 1918 - September 1919; Chapter 5: The Slade (Part 3): Decorative Painting; Chapter 6: The Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting! 1920; Chapter 7: Italy (Part 1)! 1920-2; Chapter 8: Italy (Part 2)! 1921-1923; Chapter 9 Italy (Part 3)! 1924-1925; Chapter 10: England 1926-1933; Postscript: England 1934-1947; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.
