Study of a Young Woman
1926
Laura Knight British, 1877-1970
United Kingdom
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.
Watercolor, pastel, and charcoal on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laminated board