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1) Elizabeth Shippen Green, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 1, 1871 to May 29, 1954 (aged 82), was an American illustrator.
2) She enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 and studied with the painters Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Thomas Eakins, and Robert Vonnoh. She later studied at Drexel Institute.
3) She was a member of The Plastic Club, an organization established to promote "art for art's sake." It provided a means to encourage one another professionally & create opportunities to sell their art.
4) She was publishing before she was eighteen and began making pen and ink drawings and illustrations for St. Nicholas Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, and The Saturday Evening Post.
5) In 1901 she signed an exclusive contract with the monthly Harper's Magazine, & was also a book illustrator. In 1903, she & another artist became the first women to be elected Associate Members of SOL.
6) In 1905, she won the Mary Smith Prize at the annual Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts exhibition. In 1904, she was elected posthumously to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.
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