Elizabeth Shippen Green

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Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1910.
Violet Oakley , Elizabeth Shippen Green, Jessie Willcox Smith and Henrietta Cozens , ca.1901.

Elizabeth Shippen Green (* 1871 ; † 1954 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American illustrator .

Elizabeth Shippen Green studied with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and then at Drexel University under Howard Pyle . During that time she met the artists Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith . Since they lived in the same inn ( Red Rose Inn ), they were called The Red Rose Girls . In her later years, Elizabeth Shippen Green illustrated books for children and young people and was employed by Harper's Magazine .

gallery

  • “The Journey.” Illustration to poems by Josephine Preston Peabody . In: Harper's Magazine , December 1903.

  • “Miguela, kneeling still, put it to her lip.” Illustration for “The Spanish Jade” by Maurice Hewlett . In: Harper's magazine , September 1906.

  • “He knew that he was not dreaming.” Illustration for “The Love Match” by Justus Miles Forman . In: Harper's magazine , August 1907.

literature

  • Alice A. Carter: The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love , New York: HN Abrams (2000)

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personal data
SURNAME Shippen Green, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1871
DATE OF DEATH 1954
Place of death Philadelphia , Pennsylvania