Sunday, March 10, 2013

An American illustrator: Elizabeth Shippen Green

He Knew That He Was Not Dreaming (1907)
An Illustration accompanying a story “The Love Match”

Gisele, 1918
Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 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 and Robert Vonnoh at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts(1889–1893). She then began study with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute where she met Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smit.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Shippen_Green


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