REHOBOTH ART LEAGUE
PAYNTER HOUSE DOOR SIGNATURES
THORNTON OAKLEY
Thornton Oakley was born
Sunday, March 27, 1881 in Pittsburgh , the son of John
Milton and Imofen Brasure
Oakley, and was a American artist and illustrator.
He graduated from Shady
Side Academy I 1897 and received B.S, & M.S. degrees in
architecture in 1902 from
the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning study with Howard
Pyle in 1902, for three
years, in Wilmington's North Franklin Street studio and at
the
Chadds Ford studio that
was in an old mill which is now Brandywine River Museum.
A half century Oakley
presented a collectton of drawings, prints, books, letters and
sketchbooks to the Free Library.
March 1910 Thorton Oakley
married Amy Ewing of Philadelphia and they had a daughter,
Lansdale, who wrote
travel books.
Oakley became associated
with periodicals, Century, Colliers, Harpers, and Scibners as
both a writer and
illustrator. For years he was I charge of the Illustrations
Department at
Philadelphia Museum School
of Industrial Arts, taught at University of Pennsylvania, and
lectured at Art Institute
of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Curtis Institute,
and
was member of many advisory
committees. During WW I he did drawings of work at the
Hog Island Navy shiptard
which were distributed by the government, WW II he did war
effort pictures for
National Geographic. After the war he did industrial works for Sun
Oil,
Pennsylvania Railroad and
Philadelphia Electric.
Oakley was deeply
influenced by Howard Pyle and praised him at almost all art
functions
he was a speaker or
teacher. Oakley was a member of many clubs , president of the
Philadelphia Water Color
Club, and he received the French “Palmes d'Offiier d'Academie'
.
Thornton Oakley died April
4, 1953, age 72. at Bryn Mawr and is buried with his wife Amy
at the Lower Marion
Baptist Church Cemetery in Bryn Mawr.
Source: Wikipedia,
abstract by Harrison H June 9, 2018.
No comments:
Post a Comment