Shinn, Everett

Shinn, Everett

(1876–1953) painter, illustrator; born in Woodstown, N.J. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1893–97), became an illustrator for various periodicals, and moved to New York (c. 1898). Beginning in 1901 he painted theater scenes and set designs, usually in pastels, as in London Hippodrome (1902). He was among the founders of the Eight (1908), a school of painting based on realism.

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