EVERETT SHINN GIRL UNDRESSING RED CHALK DRAWING

EVERETT SHINN GIRL UNDRESSING RED CHALK DRAWING PAINTING, Listed American Artist member of The Eight Red chalk on paper illustration by Everett Shinn, titled 'Girl Undressing'. Label on verso reads 'The Everett Shinn Estate'.
DETAILS:
- ARTIST: Everett Shinn
- ORIGIN: American, (1876-1953)
- MEDIUM: Chalk on Paper
- TITLE: Girl Undressing
- LABEL: The Everett Shinn Estate
- SIZE: 14 x 16 In. (artwork) / 21 x 24 In (Framed).
- CONDITION: Excellent.
BACKGROUND:
Everett Shinn (November 6, 1876 – May 1, 1953) 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.
Everett Shinn was the youngest member of The Eight. Though his work is varied and resistant to easy categorization, it is considered most commonly in art histories in the context of The Eight and the Ashcan school, designations that do not quite fit the range of his individual vision.
Shinn's relations with other members of The Eight, most of whom remained friendly into their later years, were never strong. "He was an accidental member of The Eight," John Sloan remarked in the late 1940s when he cast a vote against Shinn's nomination for membership in the Institute of Arts and Letters. Shinn's commitment to the high life and to interior decoration rubbed a Socialist and true urban realist like Sloan the wrong way. Yet Shinn had never claimed for himself a political stance in his art or intended to narrow his interests in service to a movement or school of art. His best works effectively capture a slice of American urban life in the first years of the twentieth century, in both a realist and a romantic spirit, and his most ambitious paintings (The London Hippodrome, The Orchestra Pit: Old Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theater) are among the greatest theater-inspired images in American art.
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
1897Moved 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
1907Painted eighteen panel for the Stuyvesant Theater
1911Completed murals on local industrial themes in the Trenton, New Jersey City Hall
1917–1923 Worked for motion-picture companies as an art director
Condition Report: Excellent