ARTIST GWENDOLYN KNIGHT DIES AT NINETY-ONE

Gwendolyn Knight, a painter and sculptor who emerged from the shadow of her husband, the painter Jacob Lawrence, late in her life, died on February 18 at her home in Seattle, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt reports in the New York Times. She was ninety-one. Although Knight did not begin to exhibit formally until the ’70’s and was long known as the wife of Lawrence, a leading visual chronicler of the African-American experience, she began painting when she was young and was still setting out in new directions in old age. This was evident in her first retrospective, titled “Never Late for Heaven: The Art of Gwen Knight,” at the Tacoma Art Museum in 2003.