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Everett Shinn Biography
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1876 |
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Born : Woodstown, N.J.
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1888 - 1890 |
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Studied industrial design at the Spring Garden School in Philadelphia,PA
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1890 - 1893 |
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Designer for a gas-fixtures company in Philadelphia,PA
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1893 - 1897 |
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Studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,PA
Reporter-artist for the Philadelphia Press
Met the EIGHT
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1897 |
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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)
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1899 |
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First of a series of murals and large panel for private houses
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1907 |
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Painted eighteen panel for the Stuyvesant Theater
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1911 |
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Completed murals on local industrial themes in the Trenton, New Jersey City Hall
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1917 - 1923 |
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Worked for motion-picture companies as an art director
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1953 |
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Died : New York City
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1952
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James Graham & Sons, New York
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1950 - 1951
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"American Painting Today 1950", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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1946
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American British Art Center
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1945
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"Artists of the Philadelphia Press", Philadelphia Museum of Art
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1943
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"The Eight", Brooklyn Museum of Art
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1937
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"New York Realists", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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1920
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Knoedler's, New York
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1910
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American Watercolor Society, New York
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1908
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Exhibition of The Eight at Macbeth Gallery, New York. Show travels to PAFA, Art Institute of Chicago, and Buffalo and Toledo Museums
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1907
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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1905 - 1906
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Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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1903
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Art Institute of Chicago, IL
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1899
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"Exhibition of Pastels by ES", Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
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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
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| Literature |
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Wong, Janay, Everett Shinn: The Spectacle of Life. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2000.
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Shinn, Everett, Everett Shinn: 1876-1953: An Exhibition of His Work. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959.
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Deshazo, Edith, Everett Shinn 1876-1953: A figure in his time. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. , 1974.
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| Links to further information |
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