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Elizabeth Finley Thomas
Elizabeth Finley Thomas

Elizabeth Finley Thomas

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Object Details

Title:
Elizabeth Finley Thomas
Date:
1927
Artist:
Medium:
Black and white pastel on beige paper between hinged mats with black ink and yellow wash framing lines
Dimensions
27 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[lower right of beige paper in graphite]: Violet Oakley / Geneva / October 1927; [lower left above framing lines in graphite]: Elizabeth Finley-Thomas; [verso in graphite]: No. 91 Elizabeth Finley-ThomasSocialite, hostess and novelist, Elizabeth Finley Thomas claimed to be one of the first American woman to learn to fly an airplane.

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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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