People

Thank you! Your submission has been received!

Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Do you recognize me?

During her long career, Violet Oakley made well over a thousand portraits. In many, the sitter has yet to be identified with certainty. Please help us discover the identity of these unknown subjects by letting us know if you recognize someone.

People (Identified)

The following lists the names of many of the people who are in or are in some way associated with a particular artwork by Oakley in Woodmere's Collection.

Drummond, Eric, Sir

Duncan, Isadora

Eddy, Mary Baker

Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon

Elisabeth, Queen of Greece

Evatt, Herbert Vere, Dr.

Eve (biblical figure)

Fisher, Helen Stevenson

Garrison, William Lloyd

Gascoyne-Cecil, William, Lord

Goldbloom, Eleanor Scott, Dr.

Goliath (biblical giant)

Gorodetsky, Herschel

Green, Elizabeth Shippen

Hakimi, Marta (née Szostakowski)

Hallward, Bernard

Hamilton, John McClure

Hamlet (legendary character)

Hancock, Jean Penn-Gaskell

Hanlein, Hannah

Harrison, Beatrice

Hasluck, Paul, Sir

Haynes, Lawrence, Jr.

Haynes, Lawrence, Sr.

Haywood, Carolyn

Hedblom, Gustav Adolf

Henniker-Heaton, Peter

Henry, Charles Wolcott

Hercules (legendary character)

Hewitt, G. W. and W. D.

Homer, Louise

Homer, Sidney

Horinouchi, Kensuke

Houston, Henry Howard

Hovnanian, Garabed

Hovnanian, Garabed, Mrs. (Louise Mather Knight)

Huber, Caroline Roberts Miller

Huber, John Y.

Hudson, Mary Mason

Hull, Hannah Clothier

Hull, William I.

Hurst, Cecil James Barrington, Sir

Huston, Joseph M.

Inge, William Ralph

Ingersoll, Henrietta Auchmuty Sturgis

Irene, Princess (Duchess of Aosta)

Jackson, Albert Atlee

Jaffe, Charles

Jarecki, Tadeusz

Jayne, Elizabeth Matthews

Jayne, Henry LaBarre

Jemne, Elsa Laubach

Jennings, Mrs. W. Beatty

Johnson, Alba Boardman

Johnson, Herschel V.

Julian, of Norwich, Dame

Katayama, Tetsu

Kilpatrick, James

Kollontai, Alexandra Mikhailovna

Koo, Wellington

Lange, Oskar, Dr.

Lathrop, William Langson

Lawrence, Louise

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.