Portrait study of Elizabeth Shippen Green

[bottom right in graphite]: study of E.S. GreenElizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954) was born in Philadelphia. Like Oakley, she came from a family of artists. Her father, Jasper Green, was a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) who worked as an illustrator and encouraged his daughter’s artistic aspirations. She met Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith in Howard Pyle’s illustration classes at Drexel Institute (now Drexel University). The three women collaborated on many projects early in their careers, sharing a studio and eventually moving into a larger property, the Red Rose Inn. Green’s drawings appeared in prominent publications across the country, including Harper's Magazine, where she was employed for twenty-three years. Green shared a Mary Smith Prize with Oakley for best work by a woman in PAFA’s 1948 annual exhibition and, with Oakley and Smith, was among the first five women elected to the New York Society of Illustrators. Green and her husband, architect Huger Elliott, remained lifelong friends of Oakley and Edith Emerson.