Illustration studies for Cathedral of Compassion: Dramatic Outline of the Life of Jane Addams 1860-1935 [Philadelphia, 1955]

Cathedral of Compassion: A Dramatic Outline of the Life of Jane Addams, 1860-1935 [Philadelphia]

Object Details

Title:

Date:

c. 1955

Artist:

Medium:

Graphite on paper with guidelines in graphite

Dimensions

11 x 8 1/2 in.

Classification

Books

Credit Line:

Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015

Description

[below bottom illustration in graphite]: Women…in Egypt, forever carrying the waters / of the Nile that the corn might not perish; [bottom right in graphite]: ?None of Oakley’s studies of Egyptian women at work (B-109, B-124, B-125, and B-126) were published in Cathedral of Compassion.

We are always open to learning more about our collections and updating the website. We invite you to share your ideas, knowledge, and stories as they relate to the art in our collection. Contact us here.

Please note that this particular work might not be on view when you visit.
Don’t worry—we have plenty of exhibitions for you to explore.

More like this

Portraits

The Church

The School

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.
Woodmere’s website infrastructure and the digitization of the Museum’s collection are made possible by the generous support of Lisa Kabnick and John McFadden.