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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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| Selected Public Collections |
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Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, NJ
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Hunter Museum of American Art, TN
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Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
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National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
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Butler Institute of American Art, OH
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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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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