Winifred Knights

1899–1947

Winifred Knights, ‘The Deluge’ 1920
The Deluge 1920
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Walk Through British Art: 1910

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Biography

Winifred Margaret Knights (1899–1947) was a British painter. Amongst her most notable works are The Marriage at Cana produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and her winning Rome Scholarship entry The Deluge which is now held by Tate Britain. Knights’ style was much influenced by the Italian Quattrocento and she was one of several British artists who participated in a revival of religious imagery in the 1920s, while retaining some elements of a modernist style.

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Artworks

Winifred Knights, ‘The Deluge’ 1920

Winifred Knights The Deluge

1920
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art T05532
Winifred Knights, ‘Italian Landscape’ 1921

Winifred Knights Italian Landscape

1921
N03681

Artist as subject

Sir Thomas Monnington, ‘Allegory’ c.1924

Sir Thomas Monnington Allegory

c.1924
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Winifred Knights, The Deluge 1920
In Focus

The Deluge 1920 by Winifred Knights

Ayla Lepine

Fresh research into Knights’s dramatic depiction of the biblical flood charts its relationship to religion, conflict, dance and gender ...

Winifred Knights, ‘The Deluge’ 1920
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Before the flood, or after the war?: Winifred Knights at Tate Britain

For his recent verse drama Pink Mist, Owen Sheers interviewed dozens of wounded soldiers who had returned from conflict, and ...

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Tate Etc. issue 30: Spring 2014

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