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.
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