Elizabeth Shippen Green

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Elizabeth Shippen Green
Born 1871
Died 1954
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Field Illustration

Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871 - 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for many years for Harper's Magazine.

She studied with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute.

She was close friends and lived with two other students of Pyle's: Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. They were called the Red Rose girls by Pyle.

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