Queer Places:
Red Rose Inn, 1308 Mt Pleasant Rd, Villanova, PA 19085
Cogslea, 627 St Georges Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19119, Stati Uniti
Cogshill, 601 St Georges Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19119
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, 215 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004, Stati Uniti
Henrietta Cozens (1862 – April 12, 1940) was a horticulturalist and a friend of
the artists Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott (1872-1954),
Violet Oakley
(1874-1961), and Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935). The three artists met in
1896 as students of the illustrator Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, now
Drexel University. Oakley and Smith began their friendship by collaborating on
the illustration of a new edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline
for Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1897. After leaving Drexel, they rented
an apartment at 1523 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, and Green joined them
there. Smith and Green collaborated on the Bryn Mawr College Calendar for
1901, 1902, and 1909, as well as on The Book of the Child.
In 1902, the three artists held their first group exhibition at the Plastic
Club, a professional organization for women artists on Camac Street in
Philadelphia. After their experience renting studio space at Bryn Mawr College
to escape the summer heat of the city, they decided in 1902 to lease the Red
Rose Inn in Villanova, where they lived and worked until 1906. Henrietta
Cozens joined them there, taking on the management of the household and the
garden. The four women then moved to a farm in the Mount Airy neighborhood of
Philadelphia, where architect Frank Miles Day designed a residence that they
named Cogslea, a word that includes the acronym "Cogs," standing for Cozens,
Oakley, Green, and Smith.
In 1911, Green married architect and artist Huger Elliott and made several
moves with him, to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York, as well as back
to Philadelphia, where they built a home near Cogslea. Meanwhile, in 1914,
Smith moved with Cozens to Cogshill, a new home and studio near Cogslea.
Oakley remained at Cogslea with her friend and former student, Edith Emerson.
Even though they no longer lived in one house, the four friends remained in
close contact for the rest of their lives.
Cogslea, 627 St Georges Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19119
Cogshill, 601 St Georges Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19119
Elliott published illustrations in Harper's and many other periodicals and
monographs. Oakley designed stained glass windows and painted murals,
including those in the Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg, and
she received many honors for her work, including awards from the St. Louis
Exposition (1904), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1905), the San
Francisco Exposition (1915), and an honorary doctorate in law from Drexel.
Smith published illustrations in many publications, including Ladies' Home
Journal, Scribner's Magazine, and Good Housekeeping Magazine, and she did the
illustrations for monographs such as Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies,
Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, and Louisa May Alcott's
Little Women. She also won many awards, including those from the Charleston
Exposition (1902), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1903), the
Philadelphia Water Color Club (1911), and the Panama-Pacific Exposition
(1915).
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