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Oakley, Violet (1874-1961) Untitled Watercolor.
Watercolor on paper, a landscape image in vertical format depicting a pink-washed grassy hill with blue sky and trees in the distance, matted and framed, signed in lower left corner, not examined out of frame, 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. sight, 15 3/4 x 13 in. overall.
Oakley, one of the Red Rose Girls, and the first American woman commissioned to create a public mural, was born into a family of artists. She created illustrations published in many magazines and studied at Drexel under Howard Pyle. Oakley's grave is one of many visited during the annual Gay Green-Wood Trolley Tour, in Philadelphia. Her life partner was fellow muralist and painter Edith Emerson (1888-1981), who served as curator of the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia for thirty-eight years.
