[Life was made for love and cheer]

Illustration depicts Green, her colleagues and housemates Jessie Willcox Smith and Violet Oakley, and other friends enjoying one another's company amid the blossoms on the grounds of the Red Rose Inn, one of the homes that the three artists shared. Children play with a dog in the foreground. Green took the title from enry Van Dyke's poem Inscriptions for a Friend's House, which celebrates the close friendship between the artists.

Portraits of Violet Oakley, Jessie Willcox Smith, E.S. Green, Henrietta Cozens, and others.
(DLC/PP-1933:0185).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Published in: "The Red Rose," Harper's magazine, 109:501 (Sept. 1904).
Exhibited in A Petal from the Rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green, Swann Gallery, Library of Congress, June 28 - September 29, 2001; The Red Rose Girls: An uncommon story of art and love, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, 2003-2004.
Exhibited: "Drawn to Purpose" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2017 - March 2018.