American painter Gina KNEE (born October 31, 1898, Marietta, Ohio–died October 31, 1982, New York, New York) is an important, surprisingly unacclaimed artist whose career spanned more than five decades and many locations—she worked in New Mexico, Georgia, California, and New York. Starting in the 1940s she had solo shows on both coasts, and her work found its way into major public and private collections. “That artists are born, not made, is amply proved by Gina Knee,” writes Ina Sizer Cassidy - referring to the fact that Knee received no formal art training. “Her work has an original, a fresh point of view, unhampered by tradition or set formulas as to what an artist should say, or should not say, or how..."