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Books: Autobiographies
1 Oil Paint and Grease Paint
Hardback and paperback
Publisher: Ivor Nicholoson and Watson 1936
2 Magic of a Line
Hardback Published William Kimber & Co London 1965
Books: Biographies
1 Janet Dunbar ‘ Laura Knight’ published Collins London 1975
2 Caroline Fox ’Dame Laura Knight’ published Phaidon Oxford 1988
3 Barbara C Morden ‘Laura Knight – a Life’ published McNidder and Grace Pembroke 2014
Books: Aspects of DLK’s Work
1 ‘Laura Knight at the Theatre’ Timothy Wilcox publisher Unicorn Press London 2008
Book accompanying touring exhibition of theatrical works of DLK exploring her fascination with the performing arts
2 ‘Laura Knight in the Open Air’ Elizabeth Knowles publisher Sansom & Company Bristol 2012
Book accompanying the touring exhibition which came to Worcester from Penlee and Nottingham, centering on Laura’s work ‘en plein air’ in Staithes, Newlyn, London and Malvern.
3 ‘Laura Knight Portraits’ Rosie Broadley publisher National Portrait Gallery 2013
Featuring 35 portraits, many owned by the NPG, the author demonstrates LK’s skills as a painter, draughtsman, her courage in tackling complex compositions and challenging subjects as well as her compassionate approach to her sitters who came from all aspects of life.
4 ‘The Graphic Work of Laura Knight’ G .Frederick Bolling and Valerie A. Withington publisher Scolar Press Aldershot 1973
An American publication regarded as the definitive exploration of Laura’s graphic work. In 3 parts it records her Prints and drawings illustrated with quotes from the painter, her woodcuts and lithographs, many rare, and finally gives a comprehensive catalogue raisonnee of her 80 published prints with details and references.
5 ‘Laura Knight – A proper Circus Omie’ Dame Laura Knight publisher Peter Davies London 1962
Dedicated to Ally the wife of Joe Craston, the circus clown from Carmo’s Circus, a couple who became lifelong friends of the Knights, with excellent LK circus illustrations.
6 ‘On with the Show’ David Messum publisher The Studio Fine Art Publications Marlow 1988
Linked with the Messum’s Sale of LK’s work in 1988 with illustrations of LK’s theatre, circus and ballet paintings.
7 ‘Laura Knight: A Working Life’ Helen Valentine and Annette Wickham published by Royal Academy of Arts and printed Gomer Press 2019
Book prepared for a small LK commemorative exhibition using works owned by the RA to illustrate Laura’s range of work throughout her life.
8 ‘Women War Artists’ Kathleen Palmer IWM publisher Tate London 2011
The IWM celebrates remarkable achievements of women artists, including Laura, who illustrated from WW1 till the present. It explores the unique opportunities war gave them whilst they faced considerable constraints but demonstrated their own unique responses to those challenges.
9 ‘War Pictures by British Artists’ Second Series WOMEN pubd Oxford University press London 1943 Introduction by Laura Knight.
Collectible wartime publication with an introduction from LK and including 3 of her own war paintings and also those of others like Gabain and Dunbar .Black and white illustrations.
10 ‘Five Women Painters’ Theresa Grimes, Judith Collins and Oriana Baddeley published for Channel 4 by Lennard Publishing 1989
Book accompanying series of 5 TV broadcasts about Agar, Carrington, Hamnett, Nicolson and Knight, distinctive women artists who forged their way developing their own unique styles in an early to mid 20th C male dominated world of painting,.
11 ‘Laura Knight 1877 to 1970’ Catalogue for Touring Exhibition Nottingham Castle Museum publisher Charles Goater and Son 1989.
Catalogue of exhibits with Foreward by Caroline Fox.
12 ‘From Victorian to Modern: 1890 to 1920’ Pamela Gerrish Nunn for Djanogly Gallery Nottingham publisher Phillip Wilson London date?
Pamela Nunn looks with a feminist eye at the work by British female artists, Bell, John and Knight, as they struggled to express themselves in the male world of art —- for their proper training, for their ability to exhibit and to gain unqualified recognition in their profession .In her expose the author reclaims many of their lost works.
13 ‘Victorian Women Artists’ Pamela Gerrish Nunn The Women’s Press Ltd London 1987
A general reference book examining from a feminist perspective women’s contribution to art
14 ‘Women Artists’ Karen Petersen and J.J.Wilson published by The Women’s Press Ltd London 1978
A general reference book for women’s painting from 5th to 20th century
Books: Coastal Art Colonies
STAITHES 1 ‘Painting at the Edge’ Editor Laura Newton published by Sansom and Company Bristol 2005
With many learned contributors this book explores the development of British coastal art colonies from late 19thC: Newlyn, St Ives, Lamorna, Walberswick, Staithes, Cullercoats, Cockburnpath and Kircudbright.
2 ‘Staithes Group Centenary Exhibition’ Rosamund Jordan pubd Maxiprint York 2003
A book to accompany the Centenary Exhibition at Staithes including the work of the Knights in Staithes up to 1907
3 ‘The Staithes Group of Artists 1894- 1909’ The Pannett Gallery Whitby published by the Gallery 1995?
Examples of the Group’s work from 1894 to 1909, includes that of the Knights
4 ‘Paintings by Members of the Staithes Group’ published Peter Haworth Milnthorpe, Cumbria 2002
Catalogue for touring exhibition
5 ‘From Runswick to Russia: Paintings by members of the Staithes Group’ published by Peter Haworth, Cumbria 2005
Catalogue for exhibition Whitby Museum
CORNWALL 1 ‘Painting in Newlyn 1880 -1930’ Caroline Fox and Francis Greenacre published by The Barbican Art Gallery 1985
Catalogue of the Exhibition
2 ‘Artists of the Newlyn School 1880-1900 ‘Caroline Fox and Francis Greenacre published for Newlyn Orion Galleries by Dowrick Design and Print, St Ives 1979
Catalogue for the Newlyn Exhibition includes artists painting in the town before the arrival of the Knights.
3 ‘Under the Open Sky: the Paintings of Newlyn and Lamorna Artists in Public Collections of Cornwall and Plymouth’ by Catherine Wallace published by Truran Books Truro 2002
Using works from 4 public galleries in Cornwall and Plymouth the writer examines the development of the Newlyn School from its inception in London and Europe to its growth in SW Cornwall , including Lamorna and the Knights.
4 ‘The Little Book of Newlyn School Paintings’ text by Louise Connell published by Penlee House Gallery and Museum 2019
Pocketbook of images from Penlee’s collection of early Newlyn pioneer painters Harvey, Langley, Forbes et al.
ST IVES 1 ‘Seachange: Fine and Decorative Art in St Ives 1914-1930’ David Tovey published by Wilson Books Tewkesbury 2010
2 ‘St Ives 1860- 1930 The Artists and the Community’: a social history. David Tovey. Published by Wilson Books Tewkesbury 2009
Books: Fellow Artists
1 ‘A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle ‘ Austin Wormleighton Sansom and Co Bristol 1995
Founder of the Lamorna Society the writer presents a full and thorough biography of a friend and contemporary artist of the ‘Valley’, John Lamorna Birch.
2 ‘Ella and Charles Naper: Art and Life at Lamorna’ John Branfield pubd Sansom and Co Bristol 2003
The author describes the life and artwork of two Lamorna artists, friends and models and inspirations for the Knights. Ella and Charles Naper lived and painted at the head of the Valley in ‘Trewoofe’ a house and garden they had built for themselves.
3 ‘A Singular Vision: Dod Procter 1890-1972’ Alison James publishedby Sansom and Co Bristol 2007
Dod Procter became another lifelong friend, an artistic inspiration and fellow Royal Academician though he rlater sad life and isolation in Newlyn did not bring her the same fame as Laura.
4 ‘Dod Procter R.A. 1892- 1972’ published by Tyne and Wear Museums Service, Newcastle 1990
Catalogue for touring exhibition about Dod and Ernest at the Laing Gallery Newcastle.
5 Autobiography in 3 volumes ‘An Artist’s Life: by Sir Alfred Munnings hardback published by Museum Press, Dedham 1950.
6 ‘Alfred Munnings 1878-1959’ Nicholas Usherwood published by Jolly and Barber, Rugby1986/87
Catalogue for the Atheneum Gallery (Princess Street, Manchester) for a touring exhibition.
7 ‘Landscape Paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings’ published by Lavenham Press Suffolk 2011
Booklet to accompany exhibition at Gainborough House. Sudbury
8 Autobiography ‘Twenty Years at St Hilary’ Bernard Walke republished by Truran Books, Truro 2002
Bernard Walke was the eccentric vicar of St Hilary’s Church near Marazio. He became a close friend of Harold Knight, Ernest Procter, Roger Fry and significant local painters who contributed to his church original paintings and sculpture.
9 ‘Barry Jackson and the London Theatre’ G. W. Bishop published by Arthur Barker London 1933 (first edition)
A valuable book, being one of 200 original printed, full of illustrations of Paul Shelvings designs for costume and stage for BJ’s London interwar productions.
Books: Miscellaneous
1 ‘A Day in the Sun: Outdoor pursuits in Art in the 1930s’ Timothy Wilcox published by Philip Wilson London 2006
Colourfully produced and designed catalogue for Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham exhibition, uses amongst many others some of Laura’s holiday paintings and posters .
2 ‘A History of the Malvern Festival 1929-89’ Roger Hall Jones printed by First Paige Publishers 1989
3 ‘Poems and Paintings of the Malvern Hills’ editor Jonathan Lumby published by Logaston Press, Almeley, Herefordshire 2014.
Amongst others uses several of Laura’s well known landscapes from her Malvern years with poetry to illustrate the ambiance of the Hills.
4 ‘Donkeys’ Years on the Malvern Hills’ Rose Garrard Garrard Art Publications Aspect Printers, Malvern 2008
Some reference and photos of LK at the Festival with GBS et al.
5 ‘A song of Life and other Poems’ William H Davies published by Mayflower Press Plymouth 1920
Davies, the itinerant poet, lived for a time near the Knights in St Johns Wood. London. They befriended and supported the eccentric poet as well as both painting his portrait.
6 ‘The Complete Clerihews’ E.Clerihew Bentley revised edition OUP Oxford 1983. Contains a humorous cartoon and poem about DLK from the 30’s
7 ‘Summer in February’ novel by Jonathan Smith published by Abacus Fiction 1996
8 ‘The Night Raid’ novel by Clare Harvey published Simon and Schuster 2017
9 ‘The History of the Royal Academy 1768- 1968’ Sidney C Hutchinson pubd Chapman and Hall London 1968. A general history of the R.A.
10 ‘The Beauty of Woman’ Louis Stanley published by WH Allen London 1955 Foreward by DLK
11 ‘The Queens Book of the Red Cross’ Hodder and Stoughton 1939.
Includes images of paintings by Laura Knight ,Alfred Munnings et al donated to the Charity
12 ‘The Homelover’s Book of Fine Pictures’ published by Sun Printers London 1953
Includes some popular prints by Laura and Harold demonstrating how, via the improvement in printing, their popularity spread into the living rooms of middle class homes of the day.