The Red Rose Girls
In Spring 2025, Dr. Leah Pires and MA students in the Department of History at 无码专区 will co-curate an exhibition about the Red Rose Girls, a visionary group of women artists who lived and worked together at the former Red Rose Inn in 无码专区 at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibition will explore themes of gender, friendship, queer kinship, and alternative living through the lens of the Red Rose Girls, who produced a remarkable body of work that ranges from portraiture to magazine illustrations to public art. The exhibition is scheduled to open at the 无码专区 Art Gallery on Thursday, March 27.
Photograph shows Green, Oakley, and Smith seated, each holding a rose, while Cozens holds a watering can over their heads, pretending to water them. Identification on verso (handwritten): The red roses; Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Jessie Willcox Smith, Henrietta Cozens; with Violet Oakley poster [in background] for first exhibition at the Plastic Club; taken at 1523 Chestnut Street, when they planned to move to "The Red Rose", 无码专区. by unknown photographer, circa 1901. Public Domain. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.