Everett Shinn Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Everett Shinn Reclining Nude, 1940 Signed and dated lower left Watercolor on paper 4 1/2 x 9 inches Provenance: Christie's New York, Interiors, August 28, 2012, Lot 181 Private Collection 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 but the artist usually lied about his age to appear younger than he actually was. Edith DeShazo 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. 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, "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" 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. 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...

Nude in Boudoir, Stepping Up (Study) by Everett Shinn (1876-1953) 15" x 17.25" Unframed 19.75" x 19.75" Framed Signed Lower Right Everett Shinn, a futur...

Figure Study Red conte crayon on a steciled wallpaper sample, c. 1909 Unsigned Condition: Slightly light struck Image: 9 x 10 1/4" (22.86 x 26.04cm) Fra...

Lithographic Illustration of Bob Cratchet and Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol with original black ink drawings by Shinn designed for the marginalia With pen a...

Medium: Drawing Signature: Signed Lower Right Inscribed "Grosset & Dunlap: James W. Riley Poems/ Focus (A)/ Reverse position/B & W" Includes copy of book Poems of a Childhood by...

Everett Shinn (1876 – 1953) Nude in the Bedroom, circa 1930 Pastel on paperboard 15 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist James Graham & Sons, New York ACA American Masters Gallery, Los Angeles Chapellier Galleries, New York Manor Circle Galleries (Irvin Brenner), New York Private Collection, Hudson, New York Private Collection, North Greenbush, New York Exhibited: New York, Chapellier Galleries, American Art Selections, January 7 - February 20, 1970, no. 17, p. 18, illustrated. Everett Shinn, the American Degas, and a future member of the Eight and remarkable, was born at Woodstown, New Jersey in 1876. 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. 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" would follow them before long. These artists, along with Theresa Bernstein, later became known as the Ashcan School. The term by that time was applied to a large number of painters beyond the original "Philadelphia Five," including George Bellows, Glenn O. Coleman, Jerome Myers, Gifford Beal, Eugene Higgins, Carl Sprinchorn...

Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Charles Henry (per Davis label) Davis Galleries, New York City (label on backing), along with Davis "Eagle" Stamp verso Ms. G...