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Everett Shinn
American, 1876 - 1953

Sullivan Street, 1900-1905
American Painting
Oil on canvas
8 in. x 10 in. (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm), without frame

Marion Stratton Gould Fund,  45.45

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In a city of many tough neighborhoods, New York’s Sullivan Street was one of the toughest.  Shinn’s depiction of the isolated figure in the foreground evokes the condition of modern man in an urban environment—a recurring theme in the art of the Urban Realists.

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