Violet Oakley was an American artist and the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she was renowned as a path-breaker 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's student and life partner, Edith Emerson, was instrumental in conserving one of her mural cycles now in the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.
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