Elizabeth Finley Thomas

Object Details

Title:

Date:

1927

Artist:

Medium:

Sanguine and white pastel between hinged mats with framing lines in black ink and wash

Dimensions

27 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.

Classification

Drawings-watercolors

Credit Line:

Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015

Description

[bottom right of drawing in sanguine pastel]: Violet Oakley / Geneva / September 1927; [lower left above framing line in graphite]: Elizabeth Finley-Thomas; [verso in black ink]: Elizabeth Finley Thomas, / artist and writer / V.O.Socialite, 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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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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