Home
/
art
/
the violet oakley experience
/
Portrait study of Mrs. John Y. Huber (Caroline Roberts Miller Huber)
Portrait study of Mrs. John Y. Huber (Caroline Roberts Miller Huber)

Portrait study of Mrs. John Y. Huber (Caroline Roberts Miller Huber)

,

Object Details

Title:
Portrait study of Mrs. John Y. Huber (Caroline Roberts Miller Huber)
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Oil on canvas board
Dimensions
22 x 20 in.
Classification
Paintings
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[verso label 1 of 3, in black ink]: Violet Oakley [space] OP39 [in red ink] / Mrs. John Y. Huber / Preliminary study, oil portrait / Oil sketch on canvas board; [verso label 2 of 3, in black ink]: 100 [in triangle]; [verso label 3 of 3, in black ink]: P-874Huber's husband was president of Keebler Biscuit Company, which was based in Philadelphia, and later the director of its holding company, United Biscuit Company of America.

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.

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.