"The Parasol" Lot no. 3049
By Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954)
23.25" x 14.00"
Charcoal on Illustration Board
Signed Lower RIght
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Shippen, who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 with the painters Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Thomas Eakins, and Robert Vonnoh, and later with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, was a lifelong friend of both Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. They roomed together at the Red Rose Inn (and were called the Red Rose girls by Pyle). Shippen was already publishing by the age of 18, and she illustrated extensively for Harper's Magazine and Harper's Monthly, St. Nicholas, etc. This particularly charming illustration, an extraordinarily accomplished charcoal drawing, has not been traced to place of publication, but it is a piece of exceptional quality.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elizabeth Shippen Green, later Mrs. Huger Elliot, was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Robert Vonnoh and Thomas Eakins. She also studied with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute where she met Jessie Willcox Smith and Violet Oakley. The three became close friends and shared studios for many years.
Although Elizabeth did some early illustrations for The Ladies’ Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as a number of books, for many years she was under exclusive contract with Harper’s Monthly. Her sensitive work is also decorative, with rounded edges and hand-hewn lines, similar in concept to that of stained glass windows. In a time when magazines used color very sparingly, a large percentage of her illustration work was reproduced in full color, which she handled brilliantly. Because she worked in a bold outline, her pictures reproduced equally well in color or in black and white.