Emerson, Edith

Works in Woodmere's Collection

Illustration study of Page [75] "The End of Warfare" for The Holy Experiment: Our Heritage from William Penn, 1644-1944 [Philadelphia: Cogslea Studio, 1950]

Illustration study of Page [65] "Slave Ship Ransomed" for The Holy Experiment: Our Heritage from William Penn, 1644-1944 [Philadelphia: Cogslea Studio, 1950]

Illustration study of Page [64] "Sanctuary in the Wilderness" for The Holy Experiment: Our Heritage from William Penn, 1644-1944 [Philadelphia: Cogslea Studio, 1950]

Portrait study of Edith Emerson

Portrait study of Edith Emerson in a hat

Portrait study of Edith Emerson and Emma at Falmouth

"Played Out" (Edith Emerson)

Portrait study of Edith Emerson on the patio at Cogslea studio

Study for "Il Convito," The Banquet [Edith Emerson and Alex de Tarnowski in outline at left, and Mary Nixon and Daniel Buckley at right], Celebrating Completion of Seven Panels for the Senate Chamber mural series, the State Capitol, Harrisburg

Group portrait study of Carolyn Haywood, Dorothy McCauslan and Edith Emerson

Portrait study of Edith Emerson Lecturing [at] Lake George

Portrait study of Edith Emerson Lecturing at Lake George

Girl in Rose [Edith Emerson, model)

Portrait study of Edith Emerson (seated in printed upholstered chair)

Portrait study of Edith Emerson in costume in mountainous landscape

Portrait study of Edith Emerson and Emma

Portrait study of Edith Emerson (in orange and gold gown)

Study for "Il Convito," The Banquet: Edith Emerson as the page "Giovanni" [with Mary Nixon and Daniel Buckley at right in outline], Celebrating Completion of Seven Panels for the Senate Chamber mural series, the State Capitol, Harrisburg

Study of Edith in the garden

The Family Solicitor Posing for a Study of Proposed Portrait (E.E. also in the Picture)

Portrait study of Edith Emerson

Study for poster of joint exhibition of League of Nations portraits by Violet Oakley and recent European work by Edith Emerson, Art Alliance, Philadelphia

Related Commissions and Projects

Yarnall House, "The House of Wisdom"

Vassar College Alumnae House

Westtown School, West Chester, Pennsylvania

"Redemption," from the mural series Great Women of the Bible, 1949, by Violet Oakley (First Presbyterian Church in Germantown) Photograph by Joe Routon

First Presbyterian, "Great Women"

League of Nations

Italy

Edith Emerson

Portrait study of delegate from Japan to the League of Nations, 1927-29, by Violet Oakley (Woodmere Art Museum: Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015)

League of Nations Portraits

Study of trees on shore by Lake George, date unknown, by Violet Oakley (Woodmere Art Museum: Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015)

Landscapes Made in the United States

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