Howard Pyle Archives » Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/tag/howard-pyle Children's Literature Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:19:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 Trailblazing Illustrator, Elizabeth Shippen Green https://www.bookologymagazine.com/features/trailblazing-illustrator-elizabeth-shippen-green https://www.bookologymagazine.com/features/trailblazing-illustrator-elizabeth-shippen-green#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2016 01:36:29 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=10258 Younger readers may not fully appreciate how difficult it was for women to break into the highly competitive field of illustration. For many years, men were routinely hired for advertising art, newspaper and magazine illustration, and children’s book illustration. 
Elizabeth Shippen Green, born in 1871 and dying in 1954, was one of the earliest female illustrators to win high regard, helping to open the door a little wider for the women who followed her,
Her father was an artist-correspondent during the Civil War.… more

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