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Illuminated text study for "And there appeared a great Wonder in Heaven; a Woman…"
Illuminated text study for "And there appeared a great Wonder in Heaven; a Woman…"

Illuminated text study for "And there appeared a great Wonder in Heaven; a Woman…"

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Object Details

Title:
Illuminated text study for "And there appeared a great Wonder in Heaven; a Woman…"
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Red and blue ink on paper
Dimensions
8 x 6 in.
Classification
Illuminated Texts
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

The text quotes from Revelation 12:1 and 12:5. The passages were also Oakley’s inspiration for the triptych The Great Wonder: A Vision of the Apocalypse, which she created for the Vassar College Alumnae House (1923–24).

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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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