Portrait study of Alice Trask (née Alice Earles Nicholson Coates)
Date
Date unknownMedium
Graphite on paperCredit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015Dimensions
10 1/8 x 8 18 in.Description & Inscriptions
[lower left in graphite]: Alice Trask
Alice was the daughter of American poet Florence Earle Coates, a close friend of Oakley's. In 1900 Alice married J. E. D. Trask, a one-time director of PAFA and another acquaintance and correspondent of Oakley's. When she became deaf, she became a teacher of lip-reading and eventually opened a school for the deaf in Philadelphia.
Alice was the daughter of American poet Florence Earle Coates, a close friend of Oakley's. In 1900 Alice married J. E. D. Trask, a one-time director of PAFA and another acquaintance and correspondent of Oakley's. When she became deaf, she became a teacher of lip-reading and eventually opened a school for the deaf in Philadelphia.
