School for Dollies
Type:Illustration
Size:19.63" x 16.50"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Signed Initials
Notes:
Sold 9/12/2008 for $69,915, setting a world record price for this artist at auction.
Elizabeth Shippen Green ART FOR SALE
1871 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1954 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Illustration, childhood genre painting.
Elizabeth Shippen Green, born in Philadelphia in 1871, is noted for her many illustrations, which may be found in the pages of numerous books and magazines. Her gracious lines, solid compositions,... Read full biography
Elizabeth Shippen Green, born in Philadelphia in 1871, is noted for her many illustrations, which may be found in the pages of numerous books and magazines. Her gracious lines, solid compositions, and grasp of color are a testament to her mentor, Howard Pyle. Green was the daughter of Jasper Green,... Read full biography
Elizabeth Shippen Green, born in Philadelphia in 1871, is noted for her many illustrations, which may be found in the pages of numerous books and magazines. Her gracious lines, solid compositions, and grasp of color are a testament to her mentor, Howard Pyle. Green was the daughter of Jasper Green, engraver, illustrator, and Civil War corespondent who encouraged her early interest in art, expressed by drawing flowers as a child. After seeing Howard Pyles drawings in St. Nicholas, she was... Read full biography
Elizabeth Shippen Green, born in Philadelphia in 1871, is noted for her many illustrations, which may be found in the pages of numerous books and magazines. Her gracious lines, solid compositions, and grasp of color are a testament to her mentor, Howard Pyle. Green was the daughter of Jasper Green, engraver, illustrator, and Civil War corespondent who encouraged her early interest in art, expressed by drawing flowers as a child. After seeing Howard Pyles drawings in St. Nicholas, she was inspired to be an illustrator. At 18 years old, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where she studied under Thomas Eakins, Robert Vonnoh, and Thomas Anshutz. Green began illustrating womens fashions for store catalogs, newspapers, and... Read full biography
Elizabeth Shippen Green, born in Philadelphia in 1871, is noted for her many illustrations, which may be found in the pages of numerous books and magazines. Her gracious lines, solid compositions, and grasp of color are a testament to her mentor, Howard Pyle. Green was the daughter of Jasper Green, engraver, illustrator, and Civil War corespondent who encouraged her early interest in art, expressed by drawing flowers as a child. After seeing Howard Pyles drawings in St. Nicholas, she was inspired to be an illustrator. At 18 years old, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where she studied under Thomas Eakins, Robert Vonnoh, and Thomas Anshutz. Green began illustrating womens fashions for store catalogs, newspapers, and occasionally childrens magazines while she was still in school at the Academy. At eighteen she published her first illustration, entitled... Read full biography
Elizabeth Shippen Green - Art for Sale (3 available)
"He was not much given to reading"
Type:Drawing
Year:1909
Size:12.25" x 15.00"
Medium:Charcoal
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Story illustration for “Endymion Uncut” by Arthur Stanwood Pier, published in Harper's Monthly, April 1909.
Candlelight
Type:Illustration
Year:1908
Size:23.00" x 14.00"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Illustration for "The Book of the Little Past," by Josephine Preston Peabody, published by Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, 1908