Portrait study of Evangeline Walker Andrews
Date
c. 1931Medium
Oil on canvasCredit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015Dimensions
22 x 19 in.Description & Inscriptions
[top left in red paint]: Violet / Oakley
Women’s colleges were also among Oakley’s patrons. In 1900, she designed the program for the first Bryn Mawr College May Day festival, a spring ritual that continues to this day. Organized by Bryn Mawr alumna Evangeline Walker Andrews, class of 1893, the inaugural event was planned “to present with historical accuracy, even to the most minute details, the May day revels of the Elizabethans.” The cover of the program is in the form of an illuminated manuscript, with the title in calligraphy, a border of roses entwined with doves, and a scene of motley revelers in Elizabethan garb circling maypoles. Oakley identified the location as the Bryn Mawr campus with a view of the towers of Pembroke Arch on the horizon.
Women’s colleges were also among Oakley’s patrons. In 1900, she designed the program for the first Bryn Mawr College May Day festival, a spring ritual that continues to this day. Organized by Bryn Mawr alumna Evangeline Walker Andrews, class of 1893, the inaugural event was planned “to present with historical accuracy, even to the most minute details, the May day revels of the Elizabethans.” The cover of the program is in the form of an illuminated manuscript, with the title in calligraphy, a border of roses entwined with doves, and a scene of motley revelers in Elizabethan garb circling maypoles. Oakley identified the location as the Bryn Mawr campus with a view of the towers of Pembroke Arch on the horizon.
