Goliath (biblical giant)

Works in Woodmere's Collection

Study for King Saul, "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Study for David and Goliath, center panel, "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Studies for King Saul and David, "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Composition sketch for "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Studies for King Saul and David, "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Study for David, "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Study for Inscription, "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Study for David, center panel, "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Study for David and Goliath, center panel, "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Composition study for "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Study of Goliath for "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Composition study for "David and Goliath" World War II portable altarpiece, for Indiantown Gap Military Chapel, PA

Study for "Sacrifice (The Boy Jesus among the Doctors)," the center panel of the "Heroism (David and Goliath), Sacrifice (Christ among the Doctors), Service (Young Solomon)" mural, Chestnut Hill Academy

Study for "Service (Young Solomon)," the right panel of the "Heroism (David and Goliath), Sacrifice (Christ among the Doctors), Service (Young Solomon)" mural, Chestnut Hill Academy

Study for "Heroism (David and Goliath)," the left panel of the "Heroism (Young David), Sacrifice (Christ among the Doctors), Service (Young Solomon)" mural, Chestnut Hill Academy

For the Preservation of Italy, Guardian of the World’s Most Precious Heritage of Beauty. Italian War Relief Poster

Related Commissions and Projects

"Heroism (Young David), Sacrifice (Christ among the Doctors), Service (Young Solomon)" mural, 1907, by Violet Oakley, Henry Memorial Library, Chestnut Hill Academy (Courtesy of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy) Photograph by Rick Echelmeyer

Chestnut Hill Academy, Henry Memorial Library

The Violet Oakley Experience is funded by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
For her expertise and scholarship on The Violet Oakley Experience, Woodmere thanks Patricia Likos Ricci. The foremost authority on Oakley, she is the Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Associate Professor of the History of Art, and a member of the Women and Gender Studies faculty at Elizabethtown College.
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