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Illuminated text study of excerpt from Christ, My Refuge, One of Seven Hymns by Mary Baker Eddy, illustrated by Violet Oakley (Boston: The trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1939)
Illuminated text study of excerpt from Christ, My Refuge, One of Seven Hymns by Mary Baker Eddy, illustrated by Violet Oakley (Boston: The trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1939)

Illuminated text study of excerpt from Christ, My Refuge, One of Seven Hymns by Mary Baker Eddy, illustrated by Violet Oakley (Boston: The trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1939)

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Object Details

Title:
Illuminated text study of excerpt from Christ, My Refuge, One of Seven Hymns by Mary Baker Eddy, illustrated by Violet Oakley (Boston: The trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1939)
Date:
c. 1939
Artist:
Medium:
Blue, brown, black ink and graphite on paper with guidelines in graphite
Dimensions
19 x 12 1/2 in.
Classification
Illuminated Texts
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[verso in graphite]: from Poem by / Mary Baker Eddy / "Christ my Refuge"Above an illustration of a young woman holding a document and standing in a church, Oakley illuminates the last lines of Eddy’s poem: My prayer, some daily good to do To Thine, for Thee; An offering pure of Love, whereto God leadeth me.

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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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