Works in Woodmere’s Collection
![Illustration sketches [of Daniel and the lions and resurrection of Christ?] in part for Christian Science Monitor (August 1934)](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/68961b6b3189b29172d19dc9/691daa089d06bf6c50b27764_voe-art-8188-art-image-oakley-2018-1-260-crop.avif)



![Illuminated initial: A, cover design element [?] for Christian Science Monitor (January 1934)](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/68961b6b3189b29172d19dc9/691daa09a9888e0de2856b55_voe-art-8192-wide-image-oakley-2018-1-254-crop.avif)


![Headline study [?]: Illuminated letters “WHY is the economic world falling to pieces?” for Christian Science Monitor (January 1934)](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/68961b6b3189b29172d19dc9/691daa09043661c1df5a5fa7_voe-art-8195-art-image-oakley-2018-1-1458-crop.avif)














![Illustration study detail of "[Drafting of the Covenant of] A League of Nations…" for Christian Science Monitor (May 1934)](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/68961b6b3189b29172d19dc9/691d9e1781185226c1adbfc2_voe-art-6105-wide-image-oakley-2018-1-1468-crop.avif)
Works in Other Collections

Drawing for Christian Science Monitor, c. 1930, by Violet Oakley (Courtesy of the Drexel Collection, Drexel University)
Historical Images
Related Works in Woodmere’s Collection

Christ, My Refuge, One of Seven Hymns by Mary Baker Eddy, illustrated by Violet Oakley [Boston: The trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy, 1939] (Woodmere Art Museum)

Illustration study of a rose-filled vase for a poem by Mary Baker Eddy, c. 1934, by Violet Oakley (Woodmere Art Museum: Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015)
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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.
Woodmere’s website infrastructure and the digitization of the Museum’s collection are made possible by the generous support of Lisa Kabnick and John McFadden.










