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Cross Streets of
New York 1899 Everett Shinn charcoal, watercolor, pastel, white chalk,and chinese white on paper 55.3 x 74.3 cm (21 5/8 x 29 1/4 in.) Copyright Corcoran Gallery of Art, Gift of Margaret M. Hitchcock by exchange |
The following information was copied from pages 428 in:
Craven, Wayne. American Art: History and Culture. New York: Abrams, 1994.
| Everett Shinn (1876-1953) also began his career as an
illustrator for the Philadelphia newspaper while studying at the
Pennsylvania Academy. He then took up painting grim street scenes
of New York City after he settled there in the late 1890s. During
a trip to Paris Shinn became fascinated with theatrical life, which
thereafter was frequently the subject of his canvases--as in London
Hippodrome (1902, Art Institute of Chicago). Shinn painted
with the fluid brushstrokes of Henri, whose circle he joined.
Streetlife pictures such Early Morning, Paris caused critics to
refer to Shinn and his friends as the Ashcan school.
Although he participated in the exhibition of The Eight at MacBeth's, Shinn's interest in the theater slowly drew him away from the art world. He painted the decorations for New York City's Belasco Theater, and even tried his hand at writing plays. |
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