Violet Oakley, Lady Mural Painter
Posted by Patricia Likos on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Violet Oakley, Lady Mural Painter When Violet Oakley accepted the commission – and challenge – of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to decorate the State Capitol then under construction in Harrisburg, she announced that the subject of her mural series would be “The Romance of the Founding of the State.” In 1902, the ardent lady mural painter, then twenty-eight years old and the only one of her kind,...read more