Violet Oakley
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 63 years ago |
Date of birth | June 10,1874 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Bergen County |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Date of died | February 25,1961 |
Died | Philadelphia |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Artworks | Henry Howard Houston Woodward |
Place of burial | Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, United States |
Education | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |
Drexel University | |
The Art Students League of New York | |
Groups | Red Rose Girls |
Periods | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
Parents | Arthur Edmund Oakley |
Cornelia Swain Oakley | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 675847 |
Violet Oakley Life story
Violet Oakley was an American artist. She was the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural decoration, a field that had been exclusively practiced by men.