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Portrait study of Marjorie Wysong (Sister Marjorie Raphael)
Portrait study of Marjorie Wysong (Sister Marjorie Raphael)

Portrait study of Marjorie Wysong (Sister Marjorie Raphael)

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait study of Marjorie Wysong (Sister Marjorie Raphael)
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Oil on canvas board
Dimensions
20 x 16 in.
Classification
Paintings
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom left in black paint]: Violet Oakley; [verso label 1 of 3 in black ink]: OP76 [in red ink] / sketch of / Marjorie McMonnies Wysong / now Sister Marjorie Raphael / of the Sisters of St. Margaret, / Boston / by / Violet Oakley / St. George's Road, Phila. 19; [verso label 2 of 3 in black ink]: 150 [in triangle]; [verso in black ink]: P-879Upon graduating in 1945 from Barnard College with a major in religion and a minor in art history, Marjorie Wysong worked for eight months as Oakley’s studio assistant. She was also the model for the head study for "The Annunciation, Angel Gabriel" mural, from the series "Great Women of the Bible," First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, PA. She then entered the Episcopalian order of the Sisters of St. Margaret in Boston. As Sister Marjorie Raphael, she spent twenty-five years in Haiti doing mission work.

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