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GREEN, ELIZABETH SHIPPEN (1871--1954) The Parasol . Original illustration, charcoal on illustration board, 23 1/4 x 14 inches (59 x 35 cm), overall size 33 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches (86 x 62 cm), signed with Shippen's monogram ESH (l.r.). Framed. From Kendra Krienke, with her label on rear. Shippen, who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 with the painters Thomas Pollock Anshutz Thomas Eakins and Robert Vonnoh, and later with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, was a lifelong friend of both Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith They roomed together at the Red Rose Inn (and were called the Red Rose girls by Pyle). Shippen was already publishing by the age of 18, and she illustrated extensively for Harper's Magazine and Harper's Monthly, St. Nicholas, etc. This particularly charming illustration, an extraordinarily accomplished charcoal drawing, has not been traced to place of publication, but it is a piece of exceptional quality. C