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Study for Ex Libris
Study for Ex Libris

Study for Ex Libris

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Object Details

Title:
Study for Ex Libris
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
7 ½ x 5 ½ in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

Oakley designed her own ex libris, a bookplate or decorative label inscribed to show the name of the book's owner. In this sketch, she depicts St. George slaying a dragon, a reference to her friend George Woodward, who she called “St. George.”

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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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