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Gwendolyn Knight

1913–2005

United States

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Gwendolyn Clarine Knight (May 26, 1913 – February 18, 2005) was an American artist born in Bridgetown, Barbados, in the West Indies, who later moved to St. Louis and then New York. Knight painted throughout her life but did not start seriously exhibiting until the 1970s.

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