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“The Inevitable Triumph”: Violet Oakley’s 'The Angel of Victory' (1941)

Jeff Richmond-Moll (University of Delaware) Despite its completion just weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Violet Oakley’s 'The Angel of Victory' announces “Victory and Peace” to the viewer. This paper seeks to reconcile Oakley’s paradoxical vision of peace in December 1941 with the conflict to come, and considers the religious character of her efforts in an era when, as some argue, public religion otherwise seemed “wrecked beyond recovery.” During World War II, Oakley produced twenty-five portable altarpieces for American chaplains around the world. 'The Angel of Victory' presents the nascent American fight as unloseable, echoing Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s recent declaration of war: “we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help us God.” This paper was presented at the conference, "In the Same Boat”: British and American Visual Culture During the Second World War, in the History of Art department at Yale University, May 8-9, 2015.