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Lot 45
Sale 5435 - BiCentennial Pennsylvania Sale
Nov 19, 2005
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$250 -
400
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$900
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1 portfolio. 1 portfolio.
Oakley, Violet. The Holy Experiment, A Message to the World from Pennsylvania: Series of Mural Paintings by Violet Oakley... in the Governor's Reception Room and in the Senate Chamber of the State Capitol at Harrisburg... (Philadelphia), (1922). #70/500 signed by Oakley. Folio, orig. brown leather portfolio, gilt, brass clasps; extremities scuffed, fist-sized area of discoloration on front cover. 22 color plates of the murals with the list of subscribers. Loose as issued, internally bright & clean.
Oakley, Violet (1874-1961), Philadelphia painter & illustrator, established her reputation as America's greatest female muralist with the work reproduced above, executed in 1905.
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