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Everett Shinn
Gentleman Napping in a Chair (Possibly for Ichabod Crane or other Illustration)

c. 1910

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Everett Shinn "Gentleman Napping in a Chair" (Illustration) Pen and Ink on Paper Initialed "E.S." Lower Right Displaying an early aptitude for drawing, coupled with a strong interest in mechanics, Everett Shinn left his small hometown of Woodstown, New Jersey for the Spring Garden Institute in Pennsylvania at the age of fifteen. After two years of technical study, Shinn gained employment designing gas light fixtures, a vocation which quickly bored the bright, young man . . . Shinn eventually enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the fall of 1893. . . and simultaneously secured an illustrator's position at the Philadelphia Press (Brian Paul Clamp. "Everett Shinn: Lights of the City and Stage (New York: Owen Gallery, 1996). With the encouragement of Robert Henri, Shinn eventually moved to New York City, where he continued illustration work for various publications, but also began to exhibit his paintings in fine art venues. "Shinn's early paintings and pastels. . . reflect his interest in the depiction of city living, infusing his experience of reportorial illustration. Shinn's artwork, however, reveals the artist's equal enchantment with the more glamorous aspects of urban life. In particular, Shinn's obsession with the theater may be seen in countless dynamic works which depict actresses, singers, and dancers on the stage, often compositionally related to the pastels of French Impressionist, Edgar degas Source: Brian Paul Clamp. The Eight: Bridging the Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New York. Owen Gallery 1997).
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