| LC control no. | n 86001802 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green |
| Variant(s) | Elliott, Huger, Mrs. Green, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Shippen) Green, Elizabeth Shippen |
| See also | Teacher: Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 Corporate body: Red Rose Girls (Group of artists) |
| Located | Villanova (Pa.) Mount Airy (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Birth date | 1871-09-01 |
| Death date | 1954-05-29 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Painting Commercial art Magazine illustration Illustration of books Children's literature--Illustrations |
| Affiliation | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry Red Rose Girls (Group of artists) Society of Illustrators (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Commercial artists Painters Illustrators |
| Found in | Lamb, C. Tales from Shakespeare, 1986: CIP t.p. (Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott) RLIN data base, 7/16/90 (hdg.: Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1871-1954) OCLC data base, 6/24/91 (hdg.: Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green; usage: Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott; Elizabeth Shippen Green) Drawn to purpose, 2018: page 195 (Green, Elizabeth Shippen (Elliott) ; b. 1871, Philadelphia; d. 1954, Villanova, PA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; work includes: illustrations) Wikipedia web site, January 3, 2019, June 27, 2020: (Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871, Philadelphia- May 29, 1954, Philadelphia); American magazine and book illustrator; illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as the Ladies' home journal, the Saturday evening post and Harper's magazine. Green enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 and studied with the painters Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Thomas Eakins, and Robert Vonnoh; afterwards studied with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute where she met Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith; "Green became close and lifelong friends with Oakley and Smith. They lived together first at the Red Rose Inn [Villanova, Pa.] (they were called 'the Red Rose girls' by Pyle) and later at Cogslea, their home in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia"; in 1911, married Huger Elliott, an architecture professor, and moved away from Cogslea; in 1903, became one of the first 2 women to be elected associate members of the Society of Illustrators even though women were not allowed to be full members; in 1994, elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame") New York Times, June 1, 1954, accessed online, June 27, 2020 ("Mrs. Huger Elliott dies; former Elizabeth S. Green of Philadelphia, artist, was 82"; dateline: Philadelphia, May 31; "Mrs. Huger Elliott, the former Elizabeth Shippen Green, a well-known Philadelphia artist, died Saturday [May 29] in a nursing home here ... under her maiden name, she was a staff artist for Harper's magazine as well as a contributor to other periodicals") Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), June 27, 2020 (Green, Elizabeth Shippen (American painter and illustrator, 1871-1954); artist, illustrator, painter; gender: female; student of: Pyle, Howard; born and died: Philadelphia; ID: 500005694) <https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500005694> |
| Associated language | eng |
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