ARTIST: Normah Louise Alcott Knight (Texas, 1910 - 2005)
NAME: Bluebonnets Landscape
YEAR: 1973
MEDIUM: oil on canvas board
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 12 x 16 inches / 30 x 40 cm
FRAME SIZE: 15 x 19 inches / 38 x 48 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
NOTE: has artist's labels on verso
SKU#: 118923
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BIOGRAPHY:
Normah Knight, known for landscape, seascape, and floral paintings, won her first art contest in 1919 when she was nine years old in Dallas, Texas. Now, past the end of the century, she has many accolades.The Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. displayed her painting in their National Collection of Fine Arts Special Exhibit of Contemporary American Paintings, November 1963. And, her paintings were chosen to represent the Rio Grande Valley Art League in an exhibit at the Lynn Kottler Gallery in New York, 1966. Art U.S.A. sponsored an international touring exhibit that included her work to represent American Art at Madison Square Garden, New York City, January 1958. The exhibit later went to the World's Fair in Brussels. Texas Art Association sponsored a show in the Elizabeth Ney Museum in Austin in November, 1941, and Normah was one of the two featured artists. In New York, Nichol, Inc. started their collection of Wild Turkey paintings by purchasing Normah's "TEXAS WILD TURKEY."Her credits include: Charter member of Artist and Craftsmen Associated in Dallas, and twenty years member of the American Artists Professional League of New York. She was listed in Who's Who in American Women, 1956-1959, Who's Who in American Art ,1959, Who's Who of American Women, 21st edition, 1999-2000, Texas Women of Distinction, The Dictionary of International Biographies, 1963, International Directory of Arts ,1969, 1970, and Distinguished Personalities of the South, 1973.Normah Knight's education consists of Southern Methodist University, Dallas Art Institute, Federal School, Inc. in Minneapolis, and Julian Academy in Paris, France, The Schuler School of Fine Art in Baltimore, MD.She also took seminars from Harry Anthony DeYoung, Peter Hondstedt, Gean Cromwell, Frank J. Reilly, Richard Seyfert, Henry Gasser and Frederic Taubes.Governor and Mrs. John Connally invited Normah to take part in the Governor's Conference on the Arts to establish the Texas Fine Arts Commission (1968). She was officially appointed to head the development of art in the Rio Grande Valley. She was head of the Cultural Arts Program for the State of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley for ten years.Rotary International, Harlingen, presented Normah with the prestigious Paul Harris Fellowship Foundation Award and Medal for her years of dedication to the development of art in the Rio Grande Valley. The City of Harlingen honored Normah with a Reception and a Proclamation that read in closing, "I, Connie de la Garza, Mayor of the City of Harlingen, do hereby proclaim, 'February 10th as Normah Knight Day.'"Her murals are historic. In 1948 Knight was commissioned to paint a mural depicting 'The Story of Bread' - from the fields to the bakery. The 4' x 48' mural was mounted on the circular lobby wall of the new Holsom Bread Bakery in Harlingen, Texas. Her largest mural is 360 sq.ft., weights 300 lbs, and is 9' x 38' long. It portrays "The Agricultural Development of the Rio Grande Valley". She painted it in 1951 and restored it in 1994. Appropriately, it is in the historic downtown Harlingen Hibernia National Bank lobby. And, her mural, "The History of the Soft Drink Industry" (6'x 8') was unveiled at the Grand Opening of Royal Crown Cola's new building, October 1955.