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Image: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Life was made for love and cheer, 1904

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Description: "Life was made for love and cheer", painting on illustration board: watercolor and charcoal. Illustration depicts Elizabeth Shippen Green, her colleagues and housemates Jessie Willcox Smith and Violet Oakley, and other friends enjoying one another's company amid the blossoms on the grounds of the Red Rose Inn, one of the homes that the three artists shared. Children play with a dog in the foreground. Green took the title from Henry Van Dyke's poem Inscriptions for a Friend's House, which celebrates the close friendship between the artists. Published in "The Red Rose," Harper's Magazine, 109:501, September 1904.
Title: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Life was made for love and cheer, 1904
Credit: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.04735. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
Author: Elizabeth Shippen Green
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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