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Elizabeth Finley Thomas Image 1

Elizabeth Finley Thomas

Date
1927
Medium
Sanguine and white pastel between hinged mats with framing lines in black ink and wash
Credit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Dimensions
27 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.

Description & Inscriptions

[bottom right of drawing in sanguine pastel]: Violet Oakley / Geneva / September 1927; [lower left above framing line in graphite]: Elizabeth Finley-Thomas; [verso in black ink]: Elizabeth Finley Thomas, / artist and writer / V.O.
Socialite, hostess and novelist, Elizabeth Finley Thomas claimed to be one of the first American woman to learn to fly an airplane.

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