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Died. Everett Shinn, 76, last of the original "Ashcan School" of American painters; in New York. At the turn of the century, he joined the revolt against the namby-pamby art of the period, became famous for his Harper's Weekly illustrations and his Toulouse-Lautrec-like vignettes of Fifth Avenue society and Bowery squalor...
Ashcan School. The job also brought him in contact with a small but brilliant group of Philadelphians who shared his attitude. Their leader was Painter Robert Henri; the others were newspaper illustrators: William Glackens, Everett Shinn and George Luks. All of them eventually moved to Manhattan and set up shop...
...were concentrating on collecting old masters and French impressionists, decided to do what she could to encourage young hopefuls in the U.S. She opened her studio to her more promising Village neighbors, was soon holding exhibitions and buying the works of such up & comers as George Luks and Everett Shinn...
Double Negative. In Chicago, Delbert Shinn was released by police after they had heard his argument that robbery of slot machines is not illegal, since slot machines are illegal...
...Press, Sloan, like Fellow Draftsmen Glackens and Shinn, sketched the fires, suicides and parades which news photographers cover today. Of necessity they learned to select story-telling details and to set them down recognizably and fast. Later, under the leadership of Painter Robert Henri, they did much the same thing in oils, and dared to call it art. That threw the academic art world of the day into a righteous rage. Henri's group became the "Ashcan School," hooted at by almost everyone...