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Sullivan Street
1900-19058 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Everett Shinn
United States (Woodstown, NJ, 1876 - 1953, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1945.45
Location: Currently on view
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.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
In 1897, encouraged by his mentor Robert Henri, Shinn moved from Philadelphia to New York City. Like Luks and Glackens, he was an artist-reporter as well as a painter. He exhibited with The Eight in 1908 at Macbeth Gallery. Sullivan Street was owned by the artist until 1945, when the Memorial Art Gallery purchased the canvas directly from him.
With just a few strokes of his brush, Everett Shinn has recreated an overcast winter street scene filled with mood and mystery. Sullivan Street is in Greenwich Village, around the corner from Shinn's studio on Waverly Place and near Washington Square Park, whose leafless trees can be seen beyond the buildings on the right.
[Gallery label text, 2003]
[Gallery label text, 2007]
In 1897, encouraged by his mentor Robert Henri, Shinn moved from Philadelphia to New York City. Like Luks and Glackens, he was an artist-reporter as well as a painter. He exhibited with The Eight in 1908 at Macbeth Gallery. Sullivan Street was owned by the artist until 1945, when the Memorial Art Gallery purchased the canvas directly from him.
With just a few strokes of his brush, Everett Shinn has recreated an overcast winter street scene filled with mood and mystery. Sullivan Street is in Greenwich Village, around the corner from Shinn's studio on Waverly Place and near Washington Square Park, whose leafless trees can be seen beyond the buildings on the right.
[Gallery label text, 2003]
Marks
Artist's signature, lower left: E Shinn/1905
Provenance
Purchased by the Gallery from the artist in 1945
Related Objects
See Ken Aptekar's "Everett Shinn Writes Isabel Herdle," (MAG 2002.1a-d), which is based upon this work .
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- The Eight The Brooklyn Museum 11/24/1943 - 12/1/1944
- Selections from the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery Albany Institute of History & Art 11/15/1964 - 12/20/1964
- The Ash Can School American Federation of Arts 10/10/1966 - 10/12/1967
- From the Permanent Collection- The Working American Memorial Art Gallery 3/8/1980 - 4/6/1980
- Painters of a New Century: The Eight Milwaukee Art Museum 9/6/1991 - 9/21/1992
- Ken Aptekar: Eye Contact Memorial Art Gallery 2/16/2002 - 4/21/2002
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
- Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Article Title: A Hundred Years and Counting. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Rochester Review. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press Issue Date: November-December 2012. Page Number: 21
- Article Scope: Entry. Elizabeth Milroy. Painters of a New Century: The Eight & American Art. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1991.
- Article Scope: Entry. The Eight: Robert Henri, John Sloan, William J. Glackens, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, George B. Luks, Everett Shinn, and Arthur B. Davies. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1943.
- Grant Holcomb, III, ed. Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
- Article Author: Searl, Marjorie B.. Article Title: Everett Shinn: Sullivan Street. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 136-139
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie Searl and Lu Harper. The Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2013.
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Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Seeing America
Chapter on Everett Shinn's Sullivan Street, written by Marjorie B. Searl.
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