Artist Thornton Oakley

 Thornton Oakley trained as an architect at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he studied illustration with Howard Pyle.

His illustrations appeared in all the major magazines—Century, Collier’s Weekly, Harper’s, Leslie’s, and Ladies’ Home Journal. He published several collections of three to four illustrations in Century Magazine between 1904 and 1917, including The London Bus in 1906, In the Railroad Yard in 1906, Ocean Liners in Port in 1907, In the Anthracite Coal Fields in 1906, and At A Chinese Temple in 1912.

Thornton Oakley married author Amy Ewing in March 1910. They traveled the world several times after that, with Amy writing about their adventures and Thornton Oakley providing the illustrations. They collaborated on The Hill Towns of the Pyrenees in 1924. A reviewer in the Pittsburg Daily Post said it wasn’t based on “hurried impressions.” Instead, the Oakleys spent three summers knocking around the Pyrenees, which allowed them to “make some comparisons between conditions before and after the war.”

Some of their other books included Cloud Lands of France in 1927, Enchanted Brittany in 1930, and The Heart of Provence in 1936. Oakley detailed his travels when he wasn’t illustrating his wife’s books. A 1916 article covered his trip on the Indian Railway. A 1919 article pictured the women of France.

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