The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love (virtual)

Chester County History Center

Author Alice A. Carter shares the extraordinary lives of of three of the area's finest artists, and the uncommon bonds they shared.

Artists Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Violet Oakley captivated early-twentieth-century Philadelphia with their brilliant careers and uncommon lifestyle. Nicknamed &quot;The Red Rose Girls” by their mentor, illustrator Howard Pyle, they rented the Red Rose Inn on the city&#x27;s Main Line and set up an unconventional household. Joined by their friend Henrietta Cozens, the women forged an intense emotional bond and made a pact to live together forever. Author Alice A. Carter will recount the story of the Red Rose Girls against the backdrop of late-Victorian mores and the emerging women&#x27;s rights movement. At a time when professional and intimate relationships between women were little understood or publicly acknowledged, the Red Rose Girls forged extraordinary lives on their own terms.About the Speaker: Alice A. Carter is a writer, artist, Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University and former co-director of education at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. Academic honors include San Jose State’s Outstanding Professor award, a Fulbright Fellowship in Cairo Egypt, the New York Society of Illustrator’s Distinguished Educator in the Arts award, and the Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities. Carter’s illustration clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Rolling Stone magazine, The New York Times, and ABC Television. Carter’s publications include The Art of National Geographic: One Hundred Years of Illustration; The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love; The Essential Thomas Eakins; Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in The Gilded Age, The Drawings of Edwin Austin Abbey, and most recently Franklin Booth: Silent Symphony. Carter serves on the Board of Trustees at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge Massachusetts and is a member of the Hall of Fame Committee at the New York Society of Illustrators.Admission is Pay as You Wish! Your donation is greatly appreciated. All proceeds benefit the development of future programming and the preservation of the History Center and its collections. The History Center is home to over 750,000 manuscripts and 100,000 photographs, and your donation helps us to preserve and share those resources.Presentation is via Zoom, and will be recorded and available for 7 days for all registered participants. We will email out a Zoom link the day of the presentation, and email a link to the recording within 48 hours. Note: the Zoom link emailed out the day of the presentation only takes you to the live presentation; the link emailed out the day after will contain the recorded version.Generously sponsored by the Haverford Trust Company.

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