Oakley, Cornelia Swain

Works in Woodmere's Collection

Christmas card from Violet Oakley to her mother, 1889

Illuminated text study for Christmas card from Violet Oakley and her mother, Cornelia Swain Oakley

"Man and Science" lunette, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House

Composition study for "Man and Science" lunette, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House

Study for the women in "Man and Science" lunette, from the mural series "The Building of the House of Wisdom," Charlton Yarnall House

Related Commissions and Projects

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.