Artistically, Oakley was the American counterpart of a British Pre-Raphaelite, but in terms of her social arrangements, she was decidedly a New Woman.
Violet Oakley
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American Artists’ Fraught Responses to the First World War
From critical to patriotic and everything in between, a vast exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts displays the full range of US artists’ reactions to World War I.
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A Guide to the 20th-Century Artists’ Graves of New York City
Following our exploration of the artist graves in New York City from the 19th and early 20th centuries, we continue into the 20th and 21st centuries.
