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Study for "Eve at the Feet of the Virgin Mary" proposed fountain
Study for "Eve at the Feet of the Virgin Mary" proposed fountain

Study for "Eve at the Feet of the Virgin Mary" proposed fountain

"Eve at the Feet of the Virgin Mary" Proposed Fountain
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Object Details

Title:
Study for "Eve at the Feet of the Virgin Mary" proposed fountain
Date:
1936–37
Artist:
Medium:
Oil on canvasboard
Dimensions
23 3/8 x 15 5/8 in.
Classification
No items found.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[verso on label 1 of 3 in ink]: Violet Oakley / Eve at the Feet of the Virgin / Mary, design for mountain [sic] / oil sketch on canvas board; [verso on label 2 of 3 in ink]: 348 [in triangle]; [verso label 3 of 3 in ink]: S-99; [verso in ink]: 127In this study, Oakley imagines the Redemption of Eve as great public fountain. The artist experimented with the imagery for the first time in her Divine Comedy window of 1912.

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