The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 3, 2023

Irving Theatre

1924

Everett Shinn

(American, 1876–1953)

America, 20th century

Black crayon with gouache, watercolor, and traces of pastel

Support: Beige(2) board, laid down on pressed wood board

Sheet: 42.7 x 45.9 cm (16 13/16 x 18 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 42.8 x 46.1 cm (16 7/8 x 18 1/8 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1971.185

Location

not on view

Description

Everitt Shinn is best-remembered today as one of the artists who exhibited with "The Eight," but he was also a talented playwright, set designer, and inventor. Throughout his life he was actively involved with the stage, and many of his best paintings portray theater scenes. Shinn's use of pastel and dramatically cropped compositions pays homage to the French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834–1917), but Shinn's work is distinctly lighter and more humorous.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in black crayon: EVERETT SHINN / 1924 .

Exhibition history

Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98. "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection."

Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).

Art and the Stage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 22-August 16, 1981).

American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.185