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Sketch of woman seated at easel, seen from the back, by Arthur Edmund Oakley (1828-1900)
Sketch of woman seated at easel, seen from the back, by Arthur Edmund Oakley (1828-1900)

Sketch of woman seated at easel, seen from the back, by Arthur Edmund Oakley (1828-1900)

Works by Oakley Family Members
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Object Details

Title:
Sketch of woman seated at easel, seen from the back, by Arthur Edmund Oakley (1828-1900)
Date:
1895
Artist:
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
15 x 10 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[below sketch in graphite]: Aug 31/95; [intended as verso of OF-18, along right side in graphite]: by V.O.'s father / Arthur E. / OakleyArthur Edmund Oakley was Violet Oakley's father.

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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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