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Dame Laura Knight sits on Royal Academy Selection Committee and makes history._x000D_
For the first time in the history of the Royal Academy, a woman is a member of the Selection Committee which has started at Burlington House, its task of choosing works for the Coronation Exhibition. The first woman Academician to sit as a judge Dame Laura Knight, renowned as one of Britain's most versatile artists._x000D_
Photo shows: the Selection Committee voting on one of the paintings._x000D_
1 April 1937
Title: Dame Laura Knight sits on
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Dame Laura Knight sits on Royal Academy Selection Committee and makes history.
_x000D_
For the first time in the history of the Royal Academy, a woman is a member of the Selection Committee which has started at Burlington House, its task of choosing works for the Coronation Exhibition.
The first woman Academician to sit as a judge Dame Laura Knight, renowned as one of Britain's most versatile artists.
_x000D_
Photo shows: the Selection Committee voting on one of the paintings.
_x000D_
1 April 1937.
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