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