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Portrait study of Horace Oakley
Portrait study of Horace Oakley

Portrait study of Horace Oakley

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait study of Horace Oakley
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Sanguine and white chalk on paper with framing lines in sanguine
Dimensions
19 x 12 3/8 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[lower right below framing line in red ink]: stamped signature; [bottom left in black ink]: Horace Oakley -- distant relativeHorace Sweeney Oakley (1861-1929) was a Chicago lawyer, scholar and philanthropist. His lectures on the need for a league to enforce peace brought Oakley to the attention of President Woodrow Wilson and an appointment to one of the President’s peace committees. In 1918, Oakley resigned from this committee to join the American Red Cross Commission to Greece.

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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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