Everett Shinn. Everett Shinn was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School.
He also exhibited with the short-lived group known as The Eight, who protested the restrictive exhibition policies of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design. He is best known for his robust paintings of urban life in New York and London, a hallmark of Ashcan art, and for his theater and residential murals and interior-design projects.
His style varied considerably over the years, from gritty and realistic to decorative and rococo. Shinn was born in Woodstown, New Jersey, a large Quaker-dominated community.
His parents Isaiah Conklin Shinn and Josephine Ransley Shinn were rural farmers. Their second son, he was named for the author Edward Everett Hale, of whom his father was a great fan.
Shinn's ability to draw was evident from very early childhood. At age 15 he was enrolled at the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia, where he studied mechanical drawing. The following year he took classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and by age 17 was working as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Press. Moving to New York City in 1897, he was soon known as one of the more talented urban realists who were chronicling in paint the energy and class divisions of modern metropolitan life. In 1898 Shinn married Florence Flossie Scovel, another artist from New Jersey; in 1912 they divorce
He also exhibited with the short-lived group known as The Eight, who protested the restrictive exhibition policies of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design. He is best known for his robust paintings of urban life in New York and London, a hallmark of Ashcan art, and for his theater and residential murals and interior-design projects.
His style varied considerably over the years, from gritty and realistic to decorative and rococo. Shinn was born in Woodstown, New Jersey, a large Quaker-dominated community.
His parents Isaiah Conklin Shinn and Josephine Ransley Shinn were rural farmers. Their second son, he was named for the author Edward Everett Hale, of whom his father was a great fan.
Shinn's ability to draw was evident from very early childhood. At age 15 he was enrolled at the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia, where he studied mechanical drawing. The following year he took classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and by age 17 was working as a staff artist for the Philadelphia Press. Moving to New York City in 1897, he was soon known as one of the more talented urban realists who were chronicling in paint the energy and class divisions of modern metropolitan life. In 1898 Shinn married Florence Flossie Scovel, another artist from New Jersey; in 1912 they divorce
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