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EVERETT SHINN (American 1876-1953)

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EVERETT SHINN (American 1876-1953)
<B>EVERETT SHINN (American 1876-1953)</B></I> <BR>Washington Square Park, New York City, c.1910 <BR>Oil on canvas <BR>16.25in. x 20in. <BR>Signed lower right: E. Shinn <BR>Inscribed on verso: Washington Square Park, NY <BR><BR>Everett Shinn was the youngest member of the Eight, a group of artists who rebelled against the National Academy of Design's conservative restrictions over artistic style and execution with a new and uncompromising American realist vision. Shinn, together with George Luks, William Glackens, John Sloan, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, and Arthur B. Davies, portrayed the streets of New York in an honest, almost gritty fashion. <BR><BR>Shinn was born in Woodstown, New Jersey. In the autumn of 1893, he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and, like many of his fellow students, worked for the Philadelphia Press as an artist-reporter creating on-the-spot sketches of news events. Through this experience he honed his distinctive drawing style characterized by striking angles and emphatic gestures. More than his colleagues, Shinn freed himself from the confines of traditional pen and ink drawing and utilized different media within the same sketch or illustration. It was a technique that added great depth and gradation of tone and color to his work. <BR><BR>Shinn first moved to New York in 1897, and was immediately taken with the energy of the city and its people. He continued his newspaper work, but soon gained recognition as a fine artist. He sold his work regularly and participated in major exhibitions, including the landmark show of The Eight at Macbeth Galleries. Shinn's New York was a sensational and ever-changing place; he painted scenes of the Bowery, Washington's Arch, Fifth Avenue, elegant ladies and gentlemen, clowns, acrobats, actresses, and the common man and woman. Shinn had a deep affection for the theatre, and he chose his subjects for their memorable and dramatic aspects. Shinn's work was exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York. <BR><BR><Condition: original canvas and stretcher bars with new keys. Thin pigment throughout, inpaint upper left corner and bottom left, otherwise good> <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</B> Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always considered first over tie eBay live bids. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 24.5% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid.