Gwendolyn Knight
Age: 91
Summary: painter
and sculptor who emerged from the shadow of her husband, painter Jacob
Lawrence (d. 2000), late in her life but did not begin to exhibit
formally until the 1970's (and was long known as the wife of Lawrence,
a leading visual chronicler of the black experience), who began
painting when she was young and was still setting out in new directions
in her old age, but who suddenly began to draw scenes and figures from
memory in the 1990's after having devoted most of her career to oil
portraits of friends, figure studies of dancers, and watercolor and
gouache landscapes that seemed to be companion pieces to her husband's
work.
Cause of Death: Natural causes
Born: May 26, 1913
Died: February 18, 2005
Location: Seattle, Washington
