Gwen Knight-Lawrence

Painter and printmaker Gwendolyn Knight-Lawrence was born in Bridgetown, Barbados. She attended Howard University in Washington, DC. During the Great Depression, she joined the ranks of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) mural project.

Following the death of her husband, artist Jacob Lawrence, in 2000, Knight-Lawrence founded the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation. The first retrospective of her work was Never Late for Heaven: The Art of Gwen Knight at the Tacoma Art Museum in 2003. She spent the better part of her life in Seattle, where her husband served on the faculty of the University of Washington.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

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Born

1913

Bridgetown, Barbados

Died

February 18, 2005

Seattle, WA

Gender

Female

Nationality

American

Heritage

Caribbean

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