 It was founded to provide a means to encourage one another professionally and create opportunities to sell their works of art.On June 14, 2014, Miss Oakley was featured in the first gay-themed tour of Green-Wood Cemetery, where she is interred in the Oakley family plot, Section 63, Lot 14788.Her life partner, Edith Emerson, was a painter and, at one time, a student of Oakley's.