Violet Oakley: An Artist’s LifeRowman & Littlefield, 2016 M03 4 - 412 páginas Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874–1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, portraitist and author. There is much human interest here: a pampered and spoiled young woman who suddenly finds herself in near poverty, forced to make a living in illustration to support her parents; a sensitive and idealistic young woman who, in a desperate attempt to save her neurasthenic father, embraces Christian Science, a religion derided by her family and friends; a 28 year old woman who receives one of the plum commissions of the era, a mural cycle in the Pennsylvania State Capitol, in a field dominated by much older and predominantly male artists; a woman in her forties who although professionally successful finds herself very much alone and bonds with her student, Edith Emerson; a friend of artists like dancer Ruth St. Denis and violinist Albert Spalding who nevertheless was supremely conscious of social mores, the “Miss Oakley” of the Social Register who preferred the company of upper class to bohemian society; the tireless self-promoter who traveled abroad to become the unofficial visual historian of the League of Nations yet who ironically was increasingly regarded as a local artist. |
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Ch02 The Magic Door 18941897 | 29 |
Ch03 1523 Chestnut Street 18971902 | 59 |
Ch04 The Romance of the Red Rose 19021905 | 91 |
Ch05 Controversy and Triumph 19051906 | 123 |
Ch06 Building the House of Wisdom 19061910 | 143 |
Ch07 Endings and Beginnings 19111912 | 167 |
Photospread | 189 |
Ch11 The Opening of the Book of the Law 19231927 | 267 |
Ch12 Geneva and Florence 19271929 | 289 |
Ch13 The Geneva Drawings 19291937 | 313 |
Ch14 The Pilgrimage of a Painter 19371961 | 345 |
Appendix 1 Violet Oakleys Illustrations 18961908 | 377 |
Appendix 2 Violet Oakleys Murals in the Pennsylvania State Capitol | 381 |
Appendix 3 List of Violet Oakleys World War II Altarpieces | 383 |
Bibliography | 387 |
Ch08 The Painter and the Architect 19121915 | 191 |
Ch09 The Creation and Preservation of the Union 19151917 | 215 |
Ch10 The Holy Experiment 19171923 | 235 |
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About the Author | 423 |
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Abbey Abbey’s American Art architect Archives of American Arthur artists Bronxville Chestnut Christ Christian Science Church commission copy Cornelia cousin Dante daughter decorative draft Edith Emerson Elizabeth Shippen Green exhibition Figure filed Fleisher Florence friends Geneva George Governor’s Reception Room Harrisburg HC box Henrietta Cozens hereafter Hester History Holy Experiment Howard Pyle Huston illustrations Jessie Willcox Smith July June later Law Triumphant Lawrence League letter Louise Louise Lawrence Magazine Mary Baker Eddy Meigs Miss Oakley mother mural painting murals Oakley and Emerson Oakley’s Painter panels Patricia Likos Penn Penn’s Pennsylvania Academy Pennsylvania State Capitol Philadelphia photographs PMA PB portrait Pyle’s Red Rose Girls Schweinfurth sister sketches Smithsonian Institution stained glass studio Supreme Court Tangier Tarnowsky trip triptych Violet Oakley Papers VO unm William window woman women wrote York