Violet Oakley--a versatile portraitist, illustrator, stained-glass artisan, and muralist--earned a reputation as the first American woman artist to succeed in the predominantly male architectural field of mural decoration. She began her career as a...

HARDY BLOOMS KEEP GARDENERS IN COLOR Need a cure for the wintertime garden blues? Take a gesneriad or two and you probably won't need to call the doctor in the morning. Gesneriads aren't found on drugstore shelves but in garden centers under...

Artist praised for his 'poetry in paint' Charles Oakley was one of an important generation of British painters who, in the late Forties, arrived at the Slade School of Fine Art wearing "demob" suits. He had neither portfolio nor sketchbooks to show, but...