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...First Annual Exhibit of paintings, drawings and sculptures by U. S. Negro artists, held under the auspices of the Harmon Foundation & the race-relations committee of the Federal Council of Churches, opened in Manhattan. First prize?$400?in the Harmon Competition had been awarded to Laura Wheeler Waring, who showed, among her seven prize-winning paintings, two splendid portraits of Negro women; the one of a slick brown jane, the other of an old Negress whose face was ugly...
...entirely concerned with matters of sex which she should have outgrown; Mrs. Habersham resides with her elder and married daughter Alice May, who is stupider, prettier, lazier than her mother; visiting Alice May are her two aunts, Sallie and Natalie, both quite credibly prurient and unattractive. The entrance of Laura Habersham, Mrs. Habersham's second daughter, who has so far forgotten her Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like an unaccustomed cold douche. The demure plot of Southern Charm consists of the anticipation and then the actuality...
...Royal Academy included in 1768 (the year it was founded) two women members.** From that day to this no woman had been a segment of the sacred circle, until last week. Mrs. Laura Knight, "England's greatest woman painter," is the new Associate Academician...
...Nottingham School of Art in 1903, Laura Johnson met Harold Knight. Soon they married and pursued together the trade of painting pictures. Together they passed from the stage of conscientious nature imitation to the artist's inevitable urge for expression. Also, they struggled with relentless poverty, walking to London to see Mr. Knight's first picture exhibited. Laura Knight sold her first picture (Mother and Child) to Edward Staff, A. R. A. Two years later another picture (A Cup of Tea by Mr. Knight) was sold. Next, they went to Holland where their work became dusky, grey, contemplative...
There are 40 Royal Academicians - . the number fixed by George III when he granted them the "Instrument" of foundation. The following year a class of Associates was formed, and is now composed of an indefinite number of members with a minimum of 30. To this class Laura Knight belongs. Associates are elected by vote of both Academicians and Asso ciates, having been proposed and seconded by one of the former. They have all rights and privileges except an active part in the Academy ad ministration...