Oakley, Violet, 1874-1961

found: A sacred challenge, c2002:t.p. (Violet Oakley and the Pennsylvania Capitol murals) p. 14 (b. June 10, 1874, Jersey City, N.J.) p. 136 (d. Feb. 25, 1961)

found: Buehrmann, Elizabeth. Photographic portraits of artists, writers, musicians, arts administrators and patrons of the arts, ca. 1904-1917, and photographic illustrations and accompanying tearsheets for magazine and newspaper advertisements, ca. 1917-1921, 1904-1921photograph, viewed in New York Public Library Digital Collections, June 26, 2020 (inscribed on verso of photograph: ("Violet Oakley, mural painter, in her studio at Cogslea") - https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2c6c7610-8b6b-0135-6c9f-39a79ecbf942

found: Stryker, Catherine C. "Biography of Violet Oakley," in Violet Oakley papers, a finding aid to the collection in the Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives, Delaware Art Museum, pages 2-3, accessed via Delaware Art Museum website, June 26, 2020(Violet Oakley was born June 10, 1874, in Bergen Heights, N.J.; studied at the Art Students League, New York and in Paris and England; in 1896, enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; in 1897, began study with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute; painted numerous murals in the Capitol Building in Harrisburg, Pa.; died February 25, 1961) - http://www.delart.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Oakley-Violet.pdf

found: Ng, Judy. A finding aid to the Violet Oakley papers, 1841-1981, in the Archives of American Art, 2014, via Smithsonian Archives of American Art website, June 27, 2020:page 3 ("Painter, muralist, and stained glass designer Violet Oakley (1874-1961) lived and worked in Philadelphia ... In 1892, she began her art studies at the Art Students' League and traveled abroad a year later to study in Paris at the Academie Montparnasse, and in England with Charles Lazar ... For fourteen years, Oakley shared her early studios at Red Rose Inn and Cogslea Estate with fellow artists and illustrators Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith. These two studio homes were managed by their friend Henrietta Cozens in a cooperative arrangement which allowed all three artists to focus on their work as commercial artists ... While working as an established artist, Oakley also taught courses at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, arranged a yearly lecture series, and published folios and other writings ... under the Co[g]slea Studios imprint. Her later studio, Lower Cogslea, was shared by artist and lifelong companion Edith Emerson, who after Oakley's death in 1961, established a memorial foundation in her name") - https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.oaklviol.pdf

found: Park, Carrol. A finding aid to the Edith Emerson papers, 1839-1981, bulk 1894-1971, 2012, via Smithsonian Archives of American Art website, June 18, 2020(biographical/historical: "Edith Emerson (1888-1981) ... studied ... at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Cecilia Beaux, Violet Oakley, and Daniel Garber. She assisted Violet Oakley primarily between 1917 and 1930 and shared her studio from 1918 until Oakley's death in 1961. Emerson ... was also a founding member of the Violet Oakley Memorial Foundation") - https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/edith-emerson-papers-10293

found: Wikipedia, June 27, 2020(Violet Oakley, born June 10, 1874, Bergen Heights, N.J. (a section of Jersey City), died February 25, 1961, Philadelphia; American artist; first American woman to receive a public mural commission; a pathbreaker in mural decoration, a field that had been exclusively practiced by men; excelled at murals and stained glass designs that addressed themes from history and literature in Renaissance-revival styles; at beginning of career, a popular illustrator for magazines; "Oakley and her friends, the artists Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith, all former students of Pyle, were named the Red Rose Girls by him. The three illustrators received the 'Red Rose Girls' nickname while they lived together in the Red Rose Inn in Villanova, Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1901. They later lived, along with Henrietta Cozens, in a home in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia that they named Cogslea after their four surnames"; in 1996, elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame; her life partner was Edith Emerson, a painter and formerly her student; in 1916, Emerson moved into Oakley's Mount Airy home, Cogslea)

found: Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), June 27, 2020(Oakley, Violet (American painter, 1874-1961); artist, painter; gender: female; born: Jersey City, N.J., died: Philadelphia, Pa.; ID: 500003148) - https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500003148