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Profile of a woman

Profile of a woman

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Object Details

Title:
Profile of a woman
Date:
1895
Artist:
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
9 x 8 1/8 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Partial museum purchase and partial gift in loving memory of Brian Zahn from Linda Zahn, 2000
Description

This portrait was made while Oakley was living in Paris, where she immersed herself in the city's vital art scene. She studied at the Académie Montparnasse, sketched in the Louvre and visited internationally renowned galleries, salons, and museums. Upon returning to the states, Oakley enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a course on portraiture taught by the Academy's first woman instructor, Cecilia Beaux.

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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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