About this artwork
The English artist Laura Knight made this moving portrait during a period when she was living in Baltimore while her husband completed some portrait commissions for Johns Hopkins Hospital. Visiting the segregated African American wards, she was struck by the beauty and abundance of new subject matter that she found there.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Laura Knight
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Title
- Study of a Young Woman
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Place
- United Kingdom (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1926
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Medium
- Watercolor, pastel, and charcoal on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laminated board
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Dimensions
- Primary support: 39.7 × 28.4 cm (15 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.5 × 40 cm (18 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Meg and Mark Hausberg Fund in honor of Martha Tedeschi
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Reference Number
- 2012.555
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