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- Exhibitions Woodmere Art Museum presents exhibitions representing Philadelphia and its artists. Our current ...
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- Learn & Create Woodmere's classes are being offered online and in-person (inside and outside the studio). Online ...
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- Collection Exploration Scroll down, select a work of art, and tell us your stories. The Violet Oakley ...
- Catalogues For select exhibitions, Woodmere Art Museum publishes Catalogues. Below please find the Catalogues ...
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People like you have shared their ideas, knowledge, and stories as they relate to the art in our ...The Violet Oakley Experience
Violet Oakley (1874–1961) has a unique status in the history of American art. During the American ...- The World “Miss Oakley takes no national viewpoint only, but one in truest sense international,” the ...
- The State Video 1: An overview of the murals in Harrisburg, Violet Oakley: A Grand Vision Video 2: In her ...
- The City “Violet Oakley belongs to Philadelphia no matter how distantly the attachments of her art may ...
- The House During the American Renaissance, the wealthy elite built mansions in historical styles that ...
- The School Throughout her career, Violet Oakley worked for educational institutions that valued her as a role ...
- The Church At the turn of the twentieth century, a church building boom provided new opportunities for ...
- Portraits Had Violet Oakley not become a muralist, she would have had a successful career as a portrait ...
- Illustrations Although Violet Oakley became known primarily for her mural commissions, she began her ...
- Landscapes Making travel sketches was a standard artistic practice in the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
- Books and Illuminated Texts During the second half of the nineteenth century, the art of illumination and Renaissance printing ...
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