In her day Laura Knight was the best known and most honoured woman artist in Britain. She was made a Dame when she was just 32 in 1929 and became an associate member then full member of the Royal ...

Although war art is not a uniquely British phenomenon, after an intensely violent century it became a topic on which mainstream British artists had much to say. In the British case, the mobilisation ...

In July 1970 the painter Laura Knight died, aged 92. Hers was, in its way, a good death, a working-to-the-last-minute death, three days before a major retrospective exhibition. She had been physically ...