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'', ''

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Education

Green enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 and studied with the painters Thomas Pollock Anshutz,

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, and Robert Vonnoh. She then began study with

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at Drexel Institute where she met Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith.

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 “

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”. 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

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, Jessie Willcox Smith, Rose O'Neill, and Violet Oakley. Green was a member of Philadelphia's The Plastic Club, an organization established to promote "art for art's sake". Other members included Elenore Abbott, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Violet Oakley.Jill P. May; Robert E. May; Howard Pyle.
Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art
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. 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 '' St. Nicholas Magazine'', ''

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''. 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, 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 became the first women to be elected Associate Members of the Society of Illustrators even though women were not allowed to be full members of the organization at that time. In 1905, Green won the Mary Smith Prize at the annual Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 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 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Elizabeth Shippen 1871 births 1954 deaths American women illustrators Artists from Philadelphia American children's book illustrators American women children's book illustrators Drexel University alumni Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni 20th-century American women artists