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Everett Shinn
Pair Of Watercolor Paintings For Charles Dickens' Book "The Life Of Our Lord"
1939

About the Item

Pair of 1939 Watercolors by American artist Everett Shinn. Each watercolor is actually 3.5" by 5.5". In the frame each watercolor is 13" x 15.5". A handwritten note attached to the back of the paintings by the artist's son. The note describes that the works were done by Everett Shinn and not signed or initialed because they were unfinished and intended for use in the book "The Life of our Lord" by Charles Dickens. A pair of watercolors on paper, 15" x 13" bearing authenticating statement from his son verso, this is a known series he painted "The Life of our Lord by Charles Dickens" and painted in 1939.I am offering them as a pair only and they are in custom frames and mats. 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). A trip to Europe is documented in 1900 by an exhibition at Goupil's in Paris and by various drawings of Paris and London but nothing more appears to be known about where Shinn went or what he saw, except that he was in Paris in July (Ferber, "Stagestruck," 1990, p. 53). Undoubtedly, he would have seen the art at the Paris Universal Exposition. DeShazo (1974, p. 40) noted that after having returned to America, Everett Shinn lost interest in lower class urban life, and Young (1973, p. 143) pointed out that unlike most members of the Eight, Shinn was not attracted to art focused on "people sleeping under bridges." In fact, he loved the glamor of Uptown, fashionably dressed ladies, and above all, Shinn wanted to depict the excitement of the theater. He himself was an amateur playwright. Shinn used spatial devices that Degas had initiated earlier but as Young (1973, p. 154) rightly observed, Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931) is a more accurate source for Shinn's chic theatrical pieces, dancers, and cabaret scenes. Shinn was not part of the National Arts Club exhibition of works by future members of the Eight in 1904, but he was mentioned by Gallatin in 1906 (p. 86) as a kind of American Degas. The author praised Shinn's draftsmanship and the technique of his pastels: "Very real they are: we might almost imagine ourselves looking in upon the actual scene." Shinn did take part in Macbeth Galleries' famous show four years later. He exhibited eight works, including The Hippodrome, London (Art Institute of Chicago), The White Ballet, ca. 1905, and The Orchestra Pit (both: collection of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul). One of his works sold (Perlman, 1979, p. 178), a painting now called Revue (Whitney Museum of American Art), formerly titled Girl in Blue. Shinn also participated in the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910 and finished the murals in Trenton in the following year (see Folk, 1981). Milton Brown (1955, p. 25) regarded these depictions by Shinn of pottery kilns and steel mills as "important . . . in that they treated a contemporary industrial subject rather than an historical or allegorical scene."

Creator:
Everett Shinn (1876-1953, American)
Creation Year:
1939
Dimensions:
Height: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Watercolor,Paper
Period:
1930-1939
Condition:
A handwritten note attached to the back of the paintings by the artist's son. The note describes that the works were done by Everett Shinn and not signed or initialed because they were unfinished and intended for use in the book "The Life of our Lord.
Gallery Location:
Hallowell, ME
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU128925025212

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