Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – May 29, 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as ''

The Ladies' Home Journal ''Ladies' Home Journal'' was an American magazine last published by the Meredith Corporation. It was first published on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States. In 18 ...

'', ''

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'' and ''

Harper's Magazine ''Harper's Magazine'' is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in New York City in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. (''Scientific American'' is older, b ...

''.

Education

Green enrolled at the

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

in 1887 and studied with the painters

Thomas Pollock Anshutz Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Known for his portraiture and genre scenes, Anshutz was a co-founder of The Darby School. One of Thomas Eakins's most prominent students, he succeed ...

Thomas Eakins Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists. For the length ...

, and Robert Vonnoh. She then began study with

Howard Pyle Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894, he began ...

Drexel Institute Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Ar ...

where she met

Violet Oakley Violet Oakley (June 10, 1874 – February 25, 1961) was an American artist. She was the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural dec ...

and

Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the lat ...

New Woman

As educational opportunities were made more available in the 19th century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations. Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior, and to help overcome that stereotype women became “increasingly vocal and confident” in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer “

New Woman The New Woman was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late 19th century and had a profound influence well into the 20th century. In 1894, Irish writer Sarah Grand (1854–1943) used the term "new woman" in an influential article, to refer to ...

”. Artists "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman, both by drawing images of the icon and exemplifying this emerging type through their own lives.” In the late 19th century and early 20th century about 88% of the subscribers of 11,000 magazines and periodicals were women. As women entered the artist community, publishers hired women to create illustrations that depict the world through a woman's perspective. Other successful illustrators were

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (December 10, 1850 – August 5, 1936) was an American painter, designer, etcher, commercial artist and illustrator. Brownscombe studied art for years in the United States and in Paris. She was a founding member, studen ...

, Jessie Willcox Smith, Rose O'Neill, and Violet Oakley. Green was a member of Philadelphia's

The Plastic Club The Plastic Club is an arts organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1897 for women only, the Plastic Club is one of the oldest art clubs in the United States. It is located on the 200 block of Camac Street, the "Little Stree ...

, an organization established to promote "art for art's sake". Other members included

Elenore Abbott Elenore Plaisted Abbott (1875–1935) was an American Book illustration, book illustrator, scenic designer, and Painters, painter. She illustrated early 20th-century editions of ''Grimm's Fairy Tales,'' ''Robinson Crusoe'', and ''Kidnapped (nov ...

, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Violet Oakley.Jill P. May; Robert E. May; Howard Pyle.
Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art
'. University of Illinois Press. 2011. . p. 89. Many of the women who founded the organization had been students of Howard Pyle. It was founded to provide a means to encourage one another professionally and create opportunities to sell their works of art."The Plastic Club Records"
Collection 3106. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (hsp.org). Retrieved March 4, 2014.

Illustrator

She was publishing before she was eighteen and began making pen and ink drawings and illustrations for ''

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'', ''

Woman's Home Companion ''Woman's Home Companion'' was an American monthly magazine, published from 1873 to 1957. It was highly successful, climbing to a circulation peak of more than four million during the 1930s and 1940s. The magazine, headquartered in Springfield, O ...

'', and ''

''. In 1901 she signed an exclusive contract with the monthly ''

''. Green was also a book illustrator. File:The Journey2.jpg, "The Journey", for a series of poems by

Josephine Preston Peabody Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist. Biography Peabody was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College. In 1898, she was introduced t ...

, 1903 File:Elizabeth Shippen Green, Miguela, kneeling still, put it to her lip, 1906.jpg , "Miguela, kneeling still, put it to her lip", ''Harper's Magazine'', 1906 File:Giséle, by Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1908.jpg , "Giséle", ''Harper's Magazine'', 1908 File:Elizabeth Shippen Green - Sep 1922 Harpers.jpg, ''Harper's Magazine'', 1922 In 1903, she and

Florence Scovel Shinn Florence Scovel Shinn (September 24, 1871 in Camden, New Jersey – October 17, 1940) was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years.Gatlin, Linda; Edwards, Rita"P ...

became the first women to be elected Associate Members of the

Society of Illustrators The Society of Illustrators is a professional society based in New York City. It was founded in 1901 to promote the art of illustration and, since 1959, has held an annual exhibition. History Founding The Society of Illustrators was founded on ...

even though women were not allowed to be full members of the organization at that time. In 1905, Green won the

Mary Smith Prize The Mary Smith Prize (defunct) was a prestigious art prize awarded to women artists by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It recognized the best work by a Philadelphia woman artist at PAFA's annual exhibition — one that showed "the m ...

at the annual

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

exhibition. In 1994, she was elected posthumously to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.

Personal life

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."Violet Oakley Historic Marker"
Explore PA History. Retrieved March 8, 2015. In 1911, at the age of forty, Green married Huger Elliott, an architecture professor, after a five-year engagement, and moved away from Cogslea. Green continued to work through the 1920s and illustrated a nonsense verse alphabet with her husband, ''An Alliterative Alphabet Aimed at Adult Abecedarians'' (1947).Helen Goodman
"Women Illustrators of the Golden Age of American Illustration"
''Woman's Art Journal''. 1987. Archived at JSTOR.org. Retrieved October 23, 2017."About Elizabeth Shippen Green".

'. An exhibition in the Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon, Library of Congress, 2001. Retrieved March 8, 2015. Green died May 29, 1954.
Quote: "died Saturday in a nursing home here" (Philadelphia).

References

External links

Elizabeth Shippen Green Biography
at Archive.org

at American Art Archives * *
Finding Aid for the Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott Files, 1896-1965
Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives,

Delaware Art Museum The Delaware Art Museum is an art museum located on the Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, Delaware, which holds a collection of more than 12,000 objects. The museum was founded in 1912 as the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts in honor of the artis ...

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Elizabeth Shippen 1871 births 1954 deaths American women illustrators Artists from Philadelphia American children's book illustrators Drexel University alumni Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni 20th-century American women artists