Talk – Winifred Knights (British Women Painters Series)

Name: Talk – Winifred Knights (British Women Painters Series)
Start: 2024-05-30T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-30T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom

Schedule

Thu May 30 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom | Oxford, EN

Thu 30 May, 2–3pm
Booking is essential
With Peter Vass, Fellow at Oxford Brookes University
One of a series of three talks on British women painters on Thursdays in May-June 2024
Winifred Knights (1899-1947) was a highly individual artist who adopted a distinctive style of modernism. She trained at the Slade under Henry Tonks and in 1920 painted, as a scholarship piece, The Deluge. It has come to be recognised as her masterpiece.
In the 1920s and 30s, Knights produced a range of remarkable and original works in the company of her husband, Stephen Monnington. She died in 1947, aged 47. No newspaper published her obituary.
This is the first of three in the Making a Mark series of talks about British women painters. Other talks in this series are:
Evelyn Dunbar - Thu 6 Jun
Joan Eardley - Thu 13 Jun
BOOKING
Tickets are £8 each, for both the in-person and online talk. https://www.ashmolean.org/event/three-women-painters-talk1-winifred-knights