All by Nathalie Anderson

The Red Rose Girls

Artists who lived together, first at the Red Rose Inn in Villanova and later in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and who vowed to stay together their whole lives – though Green married at age 40 and left the ménage. Each achieved acclaim in the early 1900s, Smith and Green as illustrators, Oakley as muralist. For more information, consult – as I did – Alice A. Carter’s The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love, 2000.