Dame Laura Knight: A Girl Reading

Dame Laura Knight, R.A., R.W.S. (1877-1970), *A Girl Reading*, probably Florence Carter Wood (later Mrs Alfred Munnings), signed ‘Laura Knight’ (lower left), pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out on paper, 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.), Image Source: Christie’s

“A young woman, in profile is reading a letter in a sunlit landscape; she wears a white blouse and her auburn hair is pinned under a broad-brimmed straw hat, its red ribbon falling over her left shoulder. On closer inspection, spots of sunlight piercing through the weave of the hat fall on to her face – a delicate observation, only possible if the picture had been painted in the open air. Behind her, fields stretch into the distance and overhead, a brilliant blue sky is lightly covered with cloud, recalling a typical summer’s day on the Penwith Peninsula. ‘In this region’ Arthur Symons proclaimed, there was ‘an air of dreams, at once formidable and mysterious, every hour of the day has its own charm and character, which change visibly and in surprising ways’ (A. Symons, ‘At the Land’s End’, Cities, Sea-Coasts and Islands, 1918, London, p. 269. Originally written for The Saturday Review in the summer of 1905).”
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