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Everett ShinnClown with Big Pants1942
1942
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Clown With Big Pants, 1942, by Everett Shinn (1876-1953)
Oil on canvas
12 x 10 inches unframed (30.48 x 25.4 cm)
19 ½ x 17 ¼ inches framed (49.53 x 43.815 cm)
Signed and dated on bottom right
Signed, dated, and titled on label on reverse
Provenance:
Barbara Mathes Gallery, NYC
Private Collection, NYC
Description:
Everett Shinn is best known for his work in the Aschan School as part of The Eight. With much of his art being produced in New York City at the turn of the 20th century, he established himself as an influential and popular illustrator for magazines and public venues. He was involved both as a commercial artist and fine artist, oscillating between these worlds throughout his career. He is best known for his depictions of street scenes and the liveliness of city life, being able to capture the animated and swift motions of a bustling world.
In this oil painting, Shinn excellently showcases his own attention to detail and movement in this rendering of a clown. The image is sardonically humorous, with the title and image calling attention to the over-exaggeration a circus clown is usually responsible for. The clown stares back at us with a mocking smile, aware of his own peculiar state.
- Creator:Everett Shinn (1876-1953, American)
- Creation Year:1942
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU163729491722
Everett Shinn
Everett Shinn, a future member of the Eight and remarkable, rather theatrical personality was born at Woodstown, New Jersey in 1873. Even more recent sources give 1876 as the year of Everett Shinn's birth (Zurier, Snyder, and Mecklenburg, 1995, p. 224) but the artist usually lied about his age to appear younger than he actually was. Edith DeShazo (1974, errata sheet) claimed that information from family members established the date of November 6, 1876 as Shinn's birthday. But if this is true, he would have enrolled at the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia to study industrial art at the age of twelve. Born to a Quaker named Isaiah Conklin Shinn and Josephine Ransley Shinn, Everett was their third child. He enjoyed a happy childhood as an undisciplined boy fond of sweets, acrobatics, and the circus (DeShazo, 1974, pp. 15-17). 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. As DeShazo explained (1974, p. 29), "the Press art department became a meeting place for men both on the staff and off with similar artistic and literary interests." 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" (artist-reporters) would follow them before long. Shinn spent much of 1898 hounding the offices of Harper's until finally, the editor and publisher, Colonel George Harvey saw his portfolio, then commissioned a view of the Old Metropolitan Opera House in a snowstorm. The pastel appeared about a year later in the February 17th issue of Harper's Weekly, in 1900. Meanwhile, Shinn kept busy with decorative work (murals, screens, and door panels) at private residences and even in Trenton, New Jersey's City Hall. In 1899, the Boussod-Valadon Galleries gave Shinn his first one-man show. He continued to carry out commissions for illustrations (see Bullard, 1968). Shinn began exhibiting at the Pennsylvania Academy (1899-1908) and at the Art Institute of Chicago (1903-43).
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