TY - BOOK ID - 101616106 TI - Violet Oakley PY - 2016 SN - 1611495865 1611495857 9781611495867 9781611495850 PB - Newark DB - UniCat KW - Artists KW - Women artists KW - Oakley, Violet, KW - Pyle, Howard, KW - Emerson, Edith, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101616106 AB - This is the first full-length biography of the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States. It traces her career in mural painting but also in illustration, stained glass, and portraits, as well as extensive publications. Oakley was a role model for many younger female artists but also notable is her later career in promoting international peace in the face of two world wars and the resulting Cold War. ER -