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of the 20th century.
Challenging Convention, brilliantly curated by the Laing’s keeper of art Lizzie Jacklin, features 60 works of Vanessa
Bell (1879-1961), Laura Knight (1877-1970), Gwen John (1876-1939) and Dod Procter (1890-1972), drawn from up to 30 lenders.
The artists were contemporaries, living in times of enormous changes and the exhibition highlights the strides they made in a male-dominated field.
Gwen John, sister of the celebrated painter Augustus John, found fame while living and working in Paris. She preferred solitude and avoided “family conventions and ties”, yet forged intense friendships and had love affairs with fellow artists, including the sculptor August Rodin, for whom she modelled. ....

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