Everett Shinn

Everett Shinn (November 6, 1876 – May 1, 1953) was an American painter and zealot of the urban realist Ashcan School.

Shinn started as a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia, demonstrating a scarce facility for depicting bustling movement, a gift that would, however, soon be eclipsed by photography. Here he worked taking into account William J. Glackens, George Luks and John Sloan, who became core-members of the Ashcan School, led by Robert Henri, which defied official great taste in favour of robust images of genuine life. Shinn is best known for scenes of mistake or street violence, as competently as theatrical subjects, regarding the theatre as a place of pleasurable illusion. Shinn was the deserted Ashcan artist who preferred to show in pastels. He was reportedly a model for the protagonist of Theodore Dreiser's novel The "Genius".