Object Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
3004-55 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Collection |
HISTORY |
Date |
1920 |
Year Range from |
1920 |
Year Range to |
1920 |
Description |
Full length portrait of Hindu dancing woman, barefoot, long flowing red dress, strings of beads around her neck, a brass cymbal in each hand. The work is signed bottom right "Violet/Oakley/1920" On reverse bottom center is a label reading "Artist Violet Oakley No. 42/1924/The Hindu Dancer Price $1,000.00 Size 18X24/Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association/.....terminal 15 Vanderbilt Ave., N. Y." The top right portion of this label is torn off and under this label is another which cannot be read without disturbing top label. As per "Violet Oakley.com", this artist was recognized as North America's first professional female artist and executed some important commissions. Title: The Hindu Dancer Value: $1000 Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association .....Terminal, 15 Vanderbilt Ave., N.Y. No.4210 May 1924 Violet Oakley (June 10, 1874 – February 25, 1961) 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. Oakley excelled at murals and stained glass designs that addressed themes from history and literature in Renaissance-revival styles. Oakley was born in Bergen Heights, New Jersey into a family of artists. Her parents were Arthur Edmund Oakley and Cornelia Swain. Both of her grandfathers were member of the National Academy of Design.In 1892, she studied at the Art Students League of New York. A year later, she studied in England and France, under Raphaël Collin and others. After her return to the United States in 1896, she studied briefly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before she joined Howard Pyle's famous illustration class at Drexel Institute. She had early success as a popular illustrator for magazines including The Century Magazine, Collier's Weekly, St. Nicholas Magazine, and Woman's Home Companion.The style of her illustrations and stained glass reflects her emulation of the English Pre-Raphaelites. Oakley's commitment to Victorian aesthetics during the advent of Modernism led to the decline of her reputation by the middle of the twentieth century. |
Made |
Oakley, Violet |
Artist |
Oakley, Violet |
Medium |
Oil Paint/Canvas |
People |
Oakley, Violet |
Search Terms |
American Asian |
Subjects |
dancer Hindu Oil paintings Women |
Height (in) |
24.000 |
Width (in) |
18.000 |