Artist Birthdays November 6 – EVERETT SHINN
EVERETT SHINN (November 6, 1876 – May 1, 1953)
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Nationality: American
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Field: Painting
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Art Movement: Ashcan School
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ARTiFact: He spent a year (1890) working at the Thackery Gas Fixture Works designing light fixtures, but was fired for doodling in the margins of his plans.
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Artist Quote: “It’s just that the uptown life with all its glitter was more good-looking… Ah, the clothes then, the movement of the satins, women’s skirts and men’s coats and swish of wild boas, oh Lord.”
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Notable Artwork (shown below): Dancer In White Before the Footlights, 1910.
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