Solomon (King of Israel)

Works in Woodmere's Collection

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

Related Commissions and Projects

Yarnall House, "The House of Wisdom"

"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.
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.