Word: shinns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the turn of the century, four important U.S. artists served their apprenticeship together on the old Philadelphia Press (absorbed in 1920 by the Public Ledger, which in turn was absorbed by the Inquirer). The big four: George Luks, William Glackens, Everett Shinn and John Sloan. Their job, in the days before high-speed cameras, was to record, as clearly and dramatically as possible, the fires, strikes, ship launchings, trials, inaugurations-and even wars-which cameras catch now. They had to work fast to make each early-morning deadline, and yet get on paper the essential look and the significant...
...artists developed a kind of pictorial shorthand. Recalls Shinn: "Sketches, if any, made on the scene, were hurried; usually mere markings with numerals shot off at tangents. If a [building] fire was to be covered, then a marginal notation . . . 18 stories and seven across, representing windows. A quick note of some detail of a cornice or architectural peculiarity was drawn in more carefully. More crosses where fire blazed in windows." Back at the drawing-boards the sketches became detailed pictures...
...Harper's Weekly, nor the hell-for-leather zip of Hearst's Frederic Remington, but Glackens' Night after San Juan, which he drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers and Sloan's Wake of the Ferry, gallery-goers could see how a whiff of spot-news training had led to fine art happily free of the musty brown academicism of the time...
...Judge Shinn threw out the most sensational charges: that Consolidated was organized as a fraudulent scheme to sell part of Hearst's property at an excessive price; that Hearst had charged it too much for goods and services from his newsprint and news-feature companies; that Consolidated was forced to pay Hearst's salary (once $500,000 a year) although he spent just as much time in behalf of his private interests; that in general Consolidated had been forced to. pay the freight for the Hearst empire. The court absolved Hearst, his companies and the Consolidated directors...
...Judge Shinn did grant recovery on some items. He found that in 1935, when Consolidated bought four more Hearst papers (Baltimore News-Post and American, San Antonio Light, Atlanta Georgian), the $8,297,595 purchase price was too high by $2,832,941. Consolidated is entitled to recover this sum plus interest. He also ruled that Consolidated should recover some of the dividends it paid to other Hearst companies on stock which had not been paid for in cash, as well as interest on some complex inter-company loans. Best estimate of the total amount of the verdict (which...