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Culture: Books: Perfect pictures of happiness; The Red Rose Girls . By Alice A Carter (Abrams pounds 12.95). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20020622
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Byline: Richard Edmonds

A lice Carter's supremely beautiful book captures, in essence, the lives of a quartet of American artists - Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley and Henrietta Cozens who captivated early 20th-century Philadelphia with their preeminence as artists and their artistic, unorthodox lifestyle.

Their mentor at art school was the outstanding book illustrator, Howard Pyle, for whom romance lay in the Arthurian world of knights and legendary conquests. It was Pyle who nicknamed the ladies 'The Red Rose Girls' after they had taken over ...

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