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Portrait study of Alice Trask (née Alice Earles Nicholson Coates)
Portrait study of Alice Trask (née Alice Earles Nicholson Coates)

Portrait study of Alice Trask (née Alice Earles Nicholson Coates)

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait study of Alice Trask (née Alice Earles Nicholson Coates)
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
10 1/8 x 8 18 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[lower left in graphite]: Alice TraskAlice was the daughter of American poet Florence Earle Coates, a close friend of Oakley's. In 1900 Alice married J. E. D. Trask, a one-time director of PAFA and another acquaintance and correspondent of Oakley's. When she became deaf, she became a teacher of lip-reading and eventually opened a school for the deaf in Philadelphia.

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