Woodward, George

Works in Woodmere's Collection

Illuminated text study for "Saints George and Gertrude Olden Wedding" (on the occasion of their 50th wedding aniversary)

Writing the Krisheim News, El Oued

Related Commissions and Projects

Saints George and Gertrude, ceramic tile overmantle, designed by Violet Oakley for Krisheim, Philadelphia, 1911 (Collection of the Woodward Family) Photograph by Darryl Moran

Krisheim and the Woodward Family

"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 Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins, 1908-9, by Violet Oakley (Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. John S. Phillips Fund, https://www.pafa.org/collection/wise-and-foolish-virgins)

Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, "The Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins" Stained Glass Lancet Windows

Red Rose Girls

Portrait study of Gertrude Houston Woodward, c. 1926, by Violet Oakley (Woodmere Art Museum: Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2012)

Woodward Family

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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