The Red Rose Girls

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The Red Rose Girls were a celebrated group of early 20th-century American women illustrators and artists who lived and worked together in a shared studio household near Philadelphia.

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instanceOf artist collective
group of illustrators
activeFrom 1890s
activeUntil 1930s
associatedWith Harper's Magazine
Ladies' Home Journal
Scribner's Magazine
basedIn Cogslea
Red Rose Inn
countryOfOrigin United States
documentedIn The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love (book)
linked to: The Red Rose Girls
educatedAt Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
fieldOfWork illustration
painting
genderComposition all-female core artistic group
genre Golden Age of Illustration
hasCharacteristic collaborative artistic community
commercial and fine art practice
women artists living in a shared household
hasMemberRole Elizabeth Shippen Green – magazine and book illustrator
Henrietta Cozens – house manager and companion
Jessie Willcox Smith – illustrator of children and domestic scenes
Violet Oakley – muralist and stained-glass artist
linked to: Violet Oakley
hasTheme allegorical and historical subjects (especially in murals)
domestic life in early 20th-century America
idealized childhood
influencedBy Howard Pyle
languageOfWork English
locationOfActivity Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Philadelphia
movement American illustration
American muralism
namedAfter Red Rose Inn
notableFor pioneering professional careers for women illustrators
shared studio household near Philadelphia
notableMember Elizabeth Shippen Green
Henrietta Cozens
Jessie Willcox Smith
Violet Oakley
notableWork book illustration for children’s literature
magazine illustration for Ladies' Home Journal
partOf Golden Age of American Illustration
socialContext women’s increased participation in professional art in the Progressive Era
timePeriod early 20th century

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Jessie Willcox Smith memberOf The Red Rose Girls
Elizabeth Shippen Green memberOf The Red Rose Girls
The Red Rose Girls documentedIn The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love (book)
linked to: The Red Rose Girls