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4 unusual facts about Violet Oakley


Jessie Willcox Smith

Of those ten, three of them were The Red Rose Girls, Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley.

During her time under Pyle at Drexel, Smith encountered two women in which she would share talent, mutual interests, and lifelong friendships, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Violet Oakley, who were under the instruction of Pyle as well.

Plashbourne Estate

It was designed in 1911 by the noted architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings and built for artist Violet Oakley (1874–1961) in the Tudor Revival style.

Violet Oakley

Murals for the Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio, her only major mural commission outside Pennsylvania


Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

The gallery contains art by Violet Oakley, tiles by Henry Chapman Mercer, 18th-century Portuguese art, and primitive European art, as well as the religious art from the original church.


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