Bailey Van Hook

Violet Oakley (eBook, ePUB)

An Artist's Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874-1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, portraitist and author. There is much human interest here: a pampered and spoiled young woman who suddenly finds herself in near poverty, forced to make a living in illustration to support her parents; a sensitive and idealistic young woman who, in a desperate attempt to save her neurasthenic father, embraces Christian Science, a religion derided by her family and friends; a 28 year old woman who receives one of the plum commissions of the era, a mural cycle in the Pennsylvania State Capitol, in a field dominated by much older and predominantly male artists; a woman in her forties who although professionally successful finds herself very much alone and bonds with her student, Edith Emerson; a friend of artists like dancer Ruth St. Denis and violinist Albert Spalding who nevertheless was supremely conscious of social mores, the "Miss Oakley" of the Social Register who preferred the company of upper class to bohemian society; the tireless self-promoter who traveled abroad to become the unofficial visual historian of the League of Nations yet who ironically was increasingly regarded as a local artist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611495867
• Artikelnr.: 44911575

Autorenporträt

By Bailey Van Hook

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Author's Note Preface: London
1912 Chapter 1: A Goodly Heritage
1874-1894 Chapter 2: The Magic Door
1894-1897 Chapter 3: 1523 Chestnut Street
1897-1902 Chapter 4: The Romance of the Red Rose
1902-1905 Chapter 5: Controversy and Triumph
1905-1906 Chapter 6: Building the House of Wisdom
1906-1910 Chapter 7: Endings and Beginnings
1911-1912 Chapter 8: The Painter and the Architect
1912-1915 Chapter 9: Creation and Preservation of the Union
1915-1917 Chapter 10: The Holy Experiment
1917-1923 Chapter 11: Opening of the Book of the Law
1923-1927 Chapter 12: Geneva and Florence
1927-1929 Chapter 13: The Geneva Drawings
1929-1937 Chapter 14: The Pilgrimage of a Painter
1937-1961 Appendix 1: List of Violet Oakley's Illustrations
1896-1908 Appendix 2: List of Violet Oakley's Murals in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Appendix 3: List of Violet Oakley's World War II altarpieces Bibliography About the Author