Depicts the principal mural artist for the Pennsylvania State Capitol building, Violet Oakley, standing on an elevated wooden platform, posing with a palette in her left hand, and a paintbrush in her right hand, before her Forty-four feet long Senate Chamber mural, International Understanding and Unity: Supreme Manifestation of Enlightenment Prophecy of William Penn. Visible in this photograph is the woman with outstretched hands, which symbolizes the "Water of Life" or "Unity." Oakley is attired in a smock over a dress with a straight skirt., Title from manuscript note on verso., Blind stamp of Mathilde Weil on recto., Note on verso: Please handle with Great Care and return., Although construction on the Capitol building was completed in 1906, much of the artwork continued to be created and installed decades later., Forms part of the Pennsylvania Capitol Photograph Collection.
Creator
Weil, Mathilde, 1847-1943?, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - sitter - O [P.9260.616]
