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9 cards : black and white illustrations. Illustrations signed E.S.G.E. Most cards are approximately 12 x 17 cm, with some slightly smaller. All printed one side only, some with written messages on the verso. All but three cards have dates, 1918-1947. Wood-engraved and photomechanical illustrations, most with text and printed Christmas greetings. 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") Huger Elliott was RISD President, 1908-1912. Transferred to the RISD Library from the RISD Museum, Prints, Drawings and Photographs department by Jan Howard. The museum acquired the collection as a gift from N. David Scotti (1941?-2008), Providence appraiser and auctioneer, in 1990. Includes printed contents sheet. Housed in plastic three-ring binder/box.
Publication Date
1947
Imprint / Year
[1912?-1947]
Keywords
wood engravings (prints); photomechanical prints; greeting cards; Christmas cards; illustrations (layout features)
Disciplines
Book and Paper | Illustration
Recommended Citation
Elliot, Elizabeth Shippen Green and Elliot, Huger, "Holiday Cards" (1947). Illustration. 71.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_illustration/71