Everett Shinn

(American, 1876–1953)

clown with drum by everett shinn

Everett Shinn

Clown with Drum, 1940

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Biography

Timeline

1876
Born : Woodstown, N.J.
1888 - 1890
Studied industrial design at the Spring Garden School in Philadelphia,PA
1890 - 1893
Designer for a gas-fixtures company in Philadelphia,PA
1893 - 1897
Studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,PA
Reporter-artist for the Philadelphia Press
Met the EIGHT
1897
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)
1899
First of a series of murals and large panel for private houses
1907
Painted eighteen panel for the Stuyvesant Theater
1911
Completed murals on local industrial themes in the Trenton, New Jersey City Hall
1917 - 1923
Worked for motion-picture companies as an art director
1953
Died : New York City

Exhibitions

1952
James Graham & Sons, New York
1950 - 1951
American Painting Today 1950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1946
American British Art Center
1945
Artists of the Philadelphia Press, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1943
The Eight, Brooklyn Museum of Art
1937
New York Realists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1920
Knoedler's, New York
1910
American Watercolor Society, New York
1908
Exhibition of The Eight at Macbeth Gallery, New York. Show travels to PAFA, Art Institute of Chicago, and Buffalo and Toledo Museums
1907
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Public Collections

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

Literature

Wong, Janay, Everett Shinn: The Spectacle of Life. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2000.
Shinn, Everett, Everett Shinn: 1876-1953: An Exhibition of His Work. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959.
Deshazo, Edith, Everett Shinn 1876-1953: A figure in his time. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. , 1974.