Elizabeth Shippen Green

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Elizabeth Shippen Green

Elizabeth Shippen Green in 1910
Born September 1, 1871 (1871-09)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died 1954 (1955)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for many years for Harper's Magazine.

Green studied with the painters Thomas Anshutz and Robert Vonnoh at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1889–1893). She then began study with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute where she met Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith.

"The Journey": illustration for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody, entitled "The Little Past", which relate experiences of childhood from a child's perspective. Published in Harper's Magazine, December 1903. Restored digital file from original oil painting.

She had already begun publishing when she was eighteen and began making pen and ink drawings and illustrations for St. Nicholas Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, and the Saturday Evening Post. In 1911, she signed an exclusive contract with Harper's Monthly. Green was also a prolific book illustrator.[1]

Green became close and lifelong friends with Oakley and Smith. They lived together first at the Red Rose Inn (they were called the Red Rose girls by Pyle) and later at Cogslea, their home in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia.[2] In 1911, Green married Huger Elliott, an architecture professor, and moved away from Cogslea. Green continued to work through the 1920s and illustrated a nonsense verse alphabet with her husband. Green died in 1954. In 1994, Green was elected to the Society of illustrators Hall of Fame. [1][3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 A petal from the rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green, An exhibition in the Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon, Library of Congress, 2001
  2. ↑ Cogslea Historic Marker
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott at Find a Grave

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