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Hercules (legendary character)

Works in Woodmere's Collection

"The Choice of Hercules" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
"The Choice of Hercules" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
"The Choice of Hercules" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
"The Apotheosis of Hercules" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
"The Apotheosis of Hercules" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
"The Apotheosis of Hercules" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
"Hercules the Infant Strangling the Serpents" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
"Hercules the Infant Strangling the Serpents" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House
"Hercules the Infant Strangling the Serpents" octagonal, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House

Related Commissions and Projects

Yarnall House, "The House of Wisdom"
Yarnall House, "The House of Wisdom"

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.
Woodmere’s website infrastructure and the digitization of the Museum’s collection are made possible by the generous support of Lisa Kabnick and John McFadden.