Illuminated text study for Thornton Oakley testimonial

Illuminated Texts

Object Details

Title:

Date:

1936

Artist:

Medium:

Black ink on paper with guidelines in graphite

Dimensions

11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.

Classification

Illuminated Texts

Credit Line:

Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015

Description

Oakley created this testimonial to express her appreciation of Thornton Oakley’s work on the memorial exhibition of illustrations and portraits by fellow Red Rose Girl Jessie Willcox Smith. The exhibition was held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in March 1936. Smith had died the previous May. Thornton Oakley was an artist and illustrator, who, like Violet Oakley, studied with Howard Pyle. The two artists were not related.

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