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Everett Shinn    (American, 1876-1953)

 Everett Shinn - Boston, The State House (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 10.2 x w: 15 in / h: 25.9 x w: 38.1 cm
Everett Shinn
Boston, The State House
 
  

Biography
1876 Born : Woodstown, N.J.
1888 - 1890 Studied industrial design at the Spring Garden School in Philadelphia,PA
1890 - 1893 Designer for a gas-fixtures company in Philadelphia,PA
1893 - 1897 Studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,PA
Reporter-artist for the Philadelphia Press
Met the EIGHT
1897 Moved to New York City where he worked as an illustrator and an artist (he illustrated twenty-eight books and ninety-four magazine stories in addition to making cartoons and newspaper illustrations)
1899 First of a series of murals and large panel for private houses
1907 Painted eighteen panel for the Stuyvesant Theater
1911 Completed murals on local industrial themes in the Trenton, New Jersey City Hall
1917 - 1923 Worked for motion-picture companies as an art director
1953 Died : New York City

Exhibitions
1952 James Graham & Sons, New York
1950 - 1951 "American Painting Today 1950", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1946 American British Art Center
1945 "Artists of the Philadelphia Press", Philadelphia Museum of Art
1943 "The Eight", Brooklyn Museum of Art
1937 "New York Realists", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1920 Knoedler's, New York
1910 American Watercolor Society, New York
1908 Exhibition of The Eight at Macbeth Gallery, New York. Show travels to PAFA, Art Institute of Chicago, and Buffalo and Toledo Museums
1907 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1905 - 1906 Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1903 Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1899 "Exhibition of Pastels by ES", Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Public Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Butler Institute of American Art, OH
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C
the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Hunter Museum of American Art, TN
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, NJ

Literature
Wong, Janay, Everett Shinn: The Spectacle of Life. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2000.
Shinn, Everett, Everett Shinn: 1876-1953: An Exhibition of His Work. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959.
Deshazo, Edith, Everett Shinn 1876-1953: A figure in his time. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. , 1974.
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