Elizabeth Shippen Green

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

Elizabeth Shippen Green (* 1. September 1871; † 29. Mai 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) war eine US-amerikanische Illustratorin.

Elizabeth Shippen Green studierte bei Thomas Eakins an der Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts und darauf an der Drexel University unter Howard Pyle. In der Zeit lernte sie die Künstlerinnen Violet Oakley und Jessie Willcox Smith kennen. Da sie das gleiche Gasthaus (Red Rose Inn) bewohnten, nannte man sie die The Red Rose Girls. In den späteren Jahren illustrierte Elizabeth Shippen Green Kinder- und Jugendbücher und war bei Harper’s Magazine angestellt.

Galerie

  • „The Journey.“ Illustration zu Gedichten von Josephine Preston Peabody. In: Harper’s Magazine, Dezember 1903.

  • „Miguela, kneeling still, put it to her lip.“ Illustration zu „The Spanish Jade“ von Maurice Hewlett. In: Harper’s magazine, September 1906.

  • „He knew that he was not dreaming.“ Illustration zu „The Love Match“ von Justus Miles Forman. In: Harper’s magazine, August 1907.

Literatur

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

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Personendaten
NAMEShippen Green, Elizabeth
KURZBESCHREIBUNGUS-amerikanische Illustratorin
GEBURTSDATUM1. September 1871
STERBEDATUM29. Mai 1954
STERBEORTPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania

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Elizabeth Shippen Green, Miguela, kneeling still, put it to her lip, 1906.jpg
"Miguela, kneeling still, put it to her lip". Watercolor painting published as frontispiece in: "The Spanish Jade" by Maurice Hewlett, Harper's magazine, 113: September 1906.
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"The Journey": Illustration depicts a young boy absorbed in watching the scenery from his seat in a railway car for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody entitled "The Little Past." The poems relate experiences of childhood from a child's perspective. Published in: "The Little Past : the Journey" by Josephine Preston Peabody, Harper's magazine, 108:95 (Dec. 1903). 1 painting : oil. Digital file from original.
Elizabeth Shippen Green, He knew that he was not dreaming, 1907.jpg
"He knew that he was not dreaming." Watercolor painting accompanying "The Love Match" by Justus Miles Forman, Harper's magazine, 115:446, August 1907.
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Photograph shows the four women seated around a table, raising their glasses. Oakley and Smith are facing the camera, the other two are turned partially away.