Normah Knight (1910-2005), Bluebonnet Farm, 1983, oil on canvas, 18 x 24", frame: 27 x 33"

Provenance: A Fort Worth, Texas collection

Normah Knight is known for landscape, seascape, and floral paintings. She won her first art contest in 1919 when she was nine years old in Dallas, Texas. Texas Art Association sponsored a show in the Elizabeth Ney Museum in Austin in November, 1941 where Knight was one of the two featured artists. Her work was shown in an exhibit at Madison Square Garden, New York City, January 1958. The same exhibit later went to the World's Fair in Brussels. The Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. displayed her painting in their National Collection of Fine Arts Special Exhibit of Contemporary American Paintings in November, 1963. Knight was chosen to represent the Rio Grande Valley Art League in an exhibit at the Lynn Kottler Gallery in New York City in 1966.