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Study for General Meade and Pennsylvania Troops in Camp Before Gettysburg, 1963, for the mural series The Creation and Preservation of the Union, Senate Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol
Study for General Meade and Pennsylvania Troops in Camp Before Gettysburg, 1963, for the mural series The Creation and Preservation of the Union, Senate Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol

Study for General Meade and Pennsylvania Troops in Camp Before Gettysburg, 1963, for the mural series The Creation and Preservation of the Union, Senate Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol

Senate Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol, "The Creation and Preservation of the Union"
,
Harrisburg, PA

Object Details

Title:
Study for General Meade and Pennsylvania Troops in Camp Before Gettysburg, 1963, for the mural series The Creation and Preservation of the Union, Senate Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol
Date:
1914
Artist:
Medium:
Gouache, ink, gold leaf on canvas board
Dimensions
17 5/8 x 24 ½ in.
Classification
No items found.
Credit Line:
Museum purchase, with generous funding provided in part by The Barra Foundation Art Acquisition Fund, 2015
Description

On the north wall of the Senate Chamber, above each of the doorways bracketing the speaker’s rostrum, Oakley depicted historical events from the Revolutionary War and Civil War eras. An equestrian image of General Washington, who helped to create the nation in the Revolutionary War, is juxtaposed with General Meade, who helped to preserve the nation in the Civil War. This and a study for her mural featuring George Washington were included in a 1916 exhibition at the Architectural League of New York. She won a Medal of Honor for her murals in the Pennsylvania State Capitol, the first-ever such medal awarded to a woman.

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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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