Normah Knight's "Peaceful Valley", Framed Oil Painting, 29" x 60"

"Peaceful Valley", Normah Knight,  Framed Oil Painting, 29" x 60"

About Normah Knight

NORMAH KNIGHT (1910-2005) Harlingen, Texas

Normah Knight was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1910. Normah Knight's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $151 USD to $826 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2019 the record price for this artist at auction is $826 USD for Bluebonnet Farm, sold at Vogt Auction Galleries in 2021. The artist died in 2005.

Normah became a renown professional artist. Her educational background consists of S.M.U., Dallas Art Institute, Federal School, Inc., Minn, MN, Julian Academy in Paris, France, and The Schuler School of Fine Art in Baltimore, MD. 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.
Texas art Association sponsored a two-artists show in the Elizabeth Ney Museum in Austin. Normah was one of the featured artists, Nov. 1941. And, 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.
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. '
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. For ten years, as head of the Cultural Arts Program for the State of Texas in The Rio Grande Valley, she promoted art and art shows.

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