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Everett Shinn

Everett Shinn (1876 - 1953) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania.  Everett Shinn is known for Urban genre painting, illustration, mural, scenic design.

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 (Zurier, Snyder, and Mecklenburg, 1995, p. 224) but the artist usually lied about his age to appear younger than he actually was.  Edith DeShazo (1974, errata sheet) 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 (DeShazo, 1974, pp. 15-17). 

Shinn opted for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for instruction in the fall of 1893, and began as a staf   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13622 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

.  askART lists Everett Shinn in 3 of its research Essays. Everett Shinn has 58 artist signature examples available in our database.

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