Published by Lund Humphries in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery
ISBN 978-1-848221772 (HB) / ISBN 978-1-898519348 (PB)
‘There could not be a better example of how to re-establish a reputation that will open up a whole group of neglected artists for future study and a tradition that has been “written out”’.
‘Extraordinary research from scratch.’
Every year the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History is awarded to a scholarly publication that demonstrates outstanding achievement in the field of British Art History. Awarded jointly by The British Art Journal and the Berger Collection Educational Trust, the Berger prize is recognized as the most prestigious award in its field.
William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017 Short List:
Elizabeth Einberg
William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Clare Browne, Glyn Davies and MA Michael, eds, with the assistance of Michaela Zöschg
English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum
Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum
James Stourton
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art & Civilisation
William Collins
Susan Rather
The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre
Sacha Llewellyn
Winifred Knights 1899–1947
Lund Humphries in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery
David Fraser Jenkins and Hugh Fowler Wright
The Art of John Piper
Co-published by Unicorn and Portland Gallery
Sacha Llewellyn is an independent researcher and curator and Director of Liss Llewellyn Fine Art with a particular interest in in interwar British Modernism. In 2016, she curated the first retrospective exhibition of Winifred Knights at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. In addition, Sacha is a writer, her recent publications including catalogue essays for “British Realist Painting between the Wars” at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Winifred Knights (1899–1947), the subject of Sacha’s talk, has been described as “Britain’s unknown genius”. Her 6 foot painting The Deluge, 1920, is one of the most instantly recognisable art works of the 20th century. It has become part of our visual landscape having been reproduced repeatedly thereby posing the question why, until recently, she has been relatively unknown. She had a promising start in her artistic life being accepted into The Slade where the eminent Henry Tonks took a interest in her work. She was outstanding winning the prestigious scholarship to the British School at Rome.
CASW Saturday Lectures and Lunch – Lisvane Memorial Hall, Cardiff, Wales – Saturday 2nd September 2017
www.lisvanememorialhall.co.uk
> http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-2/still-invisible
The journal British Art Studies is published jointly by
the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and
the Yale Centre for British Art.
A monograph on Winifred Knights, by Sacha Llewellyn, has been published by Lund Humphries on the occasion of the Dulwich exhibition. Drawing on an extensive body of previously unpublished documentary material in the form of letters, notebooks and diaries,the book provides the first full account of her life and oeuvre. Although Winifred Knights’ career was short, she produced a remarkable body of work, brought together for the first time in this publication.
Available for order from the publisher: www.lundhumphries.com/products/75469
Dulwich Picture Gallery
12 June 2016, 10:30 am – 3:30 pm
Winifred Knights was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome (1920) and one of the most outstanding, but until recently, neglected British women painters of the twentieth century.
Join us for a unique one-off Discovery Day on Winifred Knights that will encompass her life from her years at the Slade School of Fine Art and her First World War evacuation to rural Worcestershire, through to the time she spent at the British School at Rome in the 1920’s and the commissions she worked on in the years leading up to World War II.
Engage in lively discussion about Britain between the wars, women’s experience of art training, interwar figurative modernism, the revival of religious imagery and much more with a panel of experts. This day-long event will include a Private Viewing of the exhibition, as well as a tour and introduction from the exhibition’s curator, Sacha Llewellyn.
Winifred Knights, Self Portrait, 1920, Pencil on tracing paper, 9.5x7cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery
9 June 2016, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Underappreciated genius Winifred Knights is responsibile for some of the most timeless and meticulously crafted artworks produced by a British artist in the twentieth century. Join exhibition curator of Winifred Knights, Sacha Llewellyn, for an in-depth exploration of this fascinating artist as the exhibition is opened to the public.
A bijou display of works from the archive of Slade artist Winifred Knights, pupil at JAGS between 1912-15, kindly donated to the school by her son, John Monnington. Includes drawings of trees and nature, life portraits and studies of birds, alongside finished works such as Artist’s Mother and an exquisitely tiny notebook of a young girl’s thoughts and ideas about the world around her. A foretaste of the Winifred Knights exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery 8 June – 18 September.
> http://dulwichfestival.co.uk/product/winifred-knights-1899-1947/
Laura Matlock has written an insightful piece about Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours for Architecture, Religion, Art and Literature.
Read more:
www.canterbury-cathedral.org/2015/10/26/winifred-knights-unknown-genius/
The The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art have generously awarded a grant to Sacha Llewellyn for her publication, Winifred Knights 1899-1947. The book will be launched at the opening of the Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition in 2016.
Winifred Knights' Portrait of a Young Woman, UCL Art Museum (now known to be Anna Matilda Fryer) is included in Tate Britain's display, Spaces of Black Modernism: London 1919–39. The exhibition explores the experiences and interactions of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds in London’s art world between the wars.
> www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/bp-spotlight-spaces-black-modernism-london-1919-39
For his recent verse drama Pink Mist, poet, author and playwright Owen
Sheers interviewed dozens of wounded soldiers
who had returned from conflict, and learned
of the emotional fragility that comes with war’s
aftermath – a sensation that returned when
he stood in front of Winifred Knights’ painting
The Deluge at Tate Britain.
(View the article as a pdf)
Winifred Knights’ Portrait of a Young Woman was included in the Art Everywhere Exhibition. Showcasing great British art across the UK, Art Everywhere was the largest exhibition of its kind in the world. From the 12–25 August 2013 some of Britain's greatest art was on display across 22,000 poster sites and billboards up and down the country. Artists, curators, media owners and entrepreneurs joined by a love of art have fuelled this massive charitable celebration. http://arteverywhere.org.uk/artwork/portrait-of-a-young-woman
For the exhibition Moda WK, contemporary artists Holly Antrum, Nadia Hebson and Titania Seidl respond to the legacy of British artist Winifred Knights (1899-1947)
http://vane.org.uk/past-exhibitions/moda-wk.
May - June 2013
British Murals & Decorative Painting 1920-1960 (Bristol; Sansom & Co. 2013) was launched in February 2013 at an exhibition held in association with The Fine Art Society. Receiving many accolades in the press, both the book and exhibition were seen have broken new ground in this fascinating but under-researched area of British Art. William Packer described the book as ‘a beautifully produced colloquium on the subject’ (Times Newspaper, March 2 2013). Highlighting the work of many of the inter-war Slade School artists and Rome Scholars, there is a chapter dedicated to Winifred Knights’ enduring competition painting The Deluge, written by Sacha Llewellyn.