Elizabeth Shippen Green - A Garden Idyll (1904)

Such a beautiful image from Elizabeth Shippen Green, one of the best known women illustrators working during the golden age of illustration. Like many great illustrators of the period, Green studied under Howard Pyle, and with Jessie Wilcox Smith and Violet Oakley set up an illustration studio in Pennsylvania. The trio are now known as the “red rose girls,” and are by far the most prominent female illustrators of the time.

Green published in many periodicals, but is best known for her work in Harper’s, which gave her a rare (and lucrative) exclusive contract that lasted almost 20 years. This was published in the March 1904 edition of Harper’s, illustrating a story by Kate Whiting Patch called, “A Garden Idyll.” 24” x 14” mixed media on art board. From the Kelly Collection of American Illustration Art.