Sowing Potatoes on a Windy Day

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

Laura Knight was born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire and grew up in Nottingham, where she was encouraged by her mother to draw and paint. Aged 13, she attended Nottingham School of Art where she later met her future husband, the painter Harold Knight. She was drawn to the outdoor life and artistic colonies of Staithes in Yorkshire and, notably, Newlyn in Cornwall, where she became an integral figure of the artistic colony, the Newlyn School, between 1907 and 1918. After the First World War, Knight returned to London where she exhibited work frequently. In 1928 she became a member of the Royal Academy and in the following year she was made a Dame of the British Empire.

Places

Subjects

sowing, plough, farmer/farm labourer, landscape C20th, horse, wind, woman, apron, wellington boots, scarf, bucket, potato, field

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Dame Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)

Title

Sowing Potatoes on a Windy Day

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 56.60 cm, width: 78.20 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist, July 1954

Inscription

br: Laura Knight

GAC number

2803