Everett Shinn Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Everett Shinn (1876 – 1953) Nude in the Bedroom, circa 1930 Pastel on paperboard 15 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist James Graham & Sons, New York ACA American Masters Gallery, Los Angeles Chapellier Galleries, New York Manor Circle Galleries (Irvin Brenner), New York Private Collection, Hudson, New York Private Collection, North Greenbush, New York Exhibited: New York, Chapellier Galleries, American Art Selections, January 7 - February 20, 1970, no. 17, p. 18, illustrated. Everett Shinn, the American Degas, and a future member of the Eight and remarkable, was born at Woodstown, New Jersey in 1876. Shinn opted for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for instruction in the fall of 1893, and began as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Press. At that time William Glackens was working there as well, while John Sloan was at the Inquirer. A year later, Glackens was at the Press, and also, in 1894, George Luks joined the staff there. Members of the same group also met at Robert Henri's studio. By 1897, Shinn was in New York, working for the New York World where Luks had been for about a year. The rest of the "Philadelphia Four" would follow them before long. These artists, along with Theresa Bernstein, later became known as the Ashcan School. The term by that time was applied to a large number of painters beyond the original "Philadelphia Five," including George Bellows, Glenn O. Coleman, Jerome Myers, Gifford Beal, Eugene Higgins, Carl Sprinchorn...