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Artist:Everett Shinn
Date:1918
Medium:Carbon pencil & gouache
Dimensions:Sight Size 10 3/4" x 11 3/4" Framed 21 1/2" x 26"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Illustration of Unknown Origin and Use
Price: Sold
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The artists signature and date lower left
The artists signature and date lower left

This Everett Shinn pencil & gouache artwork offers a humorous take on class relations, and seemingly, the effects of intoxication. A well-heeled gentleman is shown face down in the grass as an unflappable butler bends down to assess the situation. Shinn was renowned for his ability to capture the minute distinctions of society and debauchery, and this artwork displays his fluid and lively style. This artwork is signed and dated lower right, it appears to have originally been signed 1918, and later amended to read 1928. Illustrators in the early 20th century were famed for repurposing their earlier commissions for publication by different magazines and companies, and the date change in this drawing appears to be an example of that phenomenon at work.

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Matted and framed in period gesso frame
Matted and framed in period gesso frame

A brief biography of Everett Shinn

A prominent New York-based artist in the early 20th century, Everett Shinn was a Social Realist painter who focused on lower-class urban themes. Although his ongoing reputation seems to be for Social-Realist subjects, his real interest was in the theatre and in creating images celebrating the spectacle.

From 1917 to 1923, he worked as art director for Metro Goldwyn Mayer and other studios and wrote, produced and created scene designs for plays held at his own 55 seat theatre in his New York City home. He was also a cartoonist and illustrator including work for twenty-eight books and ninety-four magazine stories.

“A brash and often flamboyant character, he went through a series of marriages and divorces.” Like other members of the Ashcan school, it was rumored that he only took illustration jobs on when money for liquor was getting tight.

Shinn was born in Woodstown, New Jersey, and studied industrial design and basic engineering at Spring Gardens Institute in Philadelphia. From 1893 to 1897, while working for a gas fixtures company in Philadelphia, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as a student of Thomas Anshutz. He then worked as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Press with George Luks, William Glackens, and John Sloan, and this group, part of the future “Eight,” centered around Robert Henri’s Philadelphia studio.

In 1897, Shinn began working for the New York Herald and shortly after started a series of murals including panels for the Stuyvesant Theater and industrial depictions for the Trenton, New Jersey City Hall.

Based in New York, he traveled extensively and also did theater and film work. In 1949, he was elected an academician of the National Academy.

Yes, Sir

Artist: Everett Shinn
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, Ashcan School, Everett Shinn, illustration, jazz age, new york city, original illustration art, satirical
Added to Gallery: October 6, 2008

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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