Elizabeth Shippen Green
Studious Girl Reading a Book - Women's Education - Female Illustrator, 1912
Charcoal,Chalk on paper
8 × 14 1/2 × 1 in / 20.3 × 36.8 × 2.5 cm
$ 26,000.00
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The work represents a carefully rendered and meticulously observed environmental portrait of a young girl absorbed in study in front of a book case. It celebrates the intelligence of womanhood...
The work represents a carefully rendered and meticulously observed
environmental portrait of a young girl absorbed in study in front of a
book case. It celebrates the intelligence of womanhood from a woman's
perspective. Initialed in cartouche lower right
literature: "The Silver Pencil", Hardy, Harper's Monthly, June 1912, pg. 22
Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – May 29, 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as The Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and Harper's Magazine. br Education
environmental portrait of a young girl absorbed in study in front of a
book case. It celebrates the intelligence of womanhood from a woman's
perspective. Initialed in cartouche lower right
literature: "The Silver Pencil", Hardy, Harper's Monthly, June 1912, pg. 22
Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – May 29, 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as The Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and Harper's Magazine. br Education