The Tempest
Datecommissioned 1903
Artist
Violet Oakley
(American painter and illustrator, 1874–1961)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions75 1/4 x 43 1/2 in. (191.1 x 110.5 cm)
frame: 98 x 104 in. (248.9 x 264.2 cm)
frame: 98 x 104 in. (248.9 x 264.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Violet Oakley Memorial Foundation, 1983
Object number1983-2
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThese Shakespearean window designs were commissioned for the music room of Mary K. Gibson's residence "Maybrook" in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. The designs were produced into windows by the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York. Oakley studied illustration with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute. In 1897 she and Jessie Willcox Smith received a joint commission to produce illustrations and a cover for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline. Oakley's color images elicited the comment that they were reminiscent of stain glass window designs. Within a few years Oakley indeed was designing stained glass windows.
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