Ethel Tucker (1879-1970) and Catherine Tucker (1874-1962) were talented artistic sisters who, after studying art in New York at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, returned to Bermuda. They worked for the New York branch of Raphael Tuck of London. After 11 years in New York they returned to Bermuda where they opened the Colony's earliest souvenir and gift shop, named it The Little Green Shop, and it was here that they sold their first postcards. Their tea shop named The Little Green Door was a meeting place for many well-known people - Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Eugene O'Neill and others. In 1958 the Tucker sisters decided the time had come to wind up their business. Generations of tourists had visited The Little Green Shop, and Bermudians themselves regretted that final closing on February 22, 1958. But the two ladies still continued painting!