- Elizabeth Shippen Green
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name = Elizabeth Shippen Green
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birthdate = 1871
birthplace =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , U.S.
deathdate = 1954
deathplace =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , U.S.
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field =Illustration
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works =Elizabeth Shippen Green (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 andRobert Vonnoh at thePennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1889-1893). She then began study withHoward Pyle at Drexel Institute where she metViolet Oakley andJessie Willcox Smith .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 theSaturday Evening Post . In 1911, she signed an exclusive contract withHarper's Monthly . Green was also a prolific book illustrator. [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/petal/about.html A petal from the rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green, An exhibition in the Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon, Library of Congress, 2001] ]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. [http://www.explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=616 Cogslea Historic Marker] ] In 1911, Green married Huger Elliott, an architecture professor, and moved away from Cogslea. Green continued to work through the 1920's and illustrated a nonsense verse alphabet with her husband. Green died in 1954.References
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* [http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/biographies/mainbiographies/G/GreenG/Green.htm Elizabeth Shippen Green]
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