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1903, Everett Shinn, Steps between Houses (Paris Street) [pastel] -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: Everett Shinn worked in the 1890s as an illustrator for Philadelphia and New York newspapers, joining George Luks and John Sloan--who, like him, would soon make their names as realist painters. Steps between Houses possesses the loose network of lines and sense of immediacy he first demonstrated in his quickly rendered, early commercial work. This pastel elaborates on sketches that the artist made during a six-month trip to Paris in 1900. Here, Shinn makes the act of looking a subject matter in its own right. Along with the foreshortened steps creating diagonal lines of sight, the windows, shop signs, and poster text encourage close observation. The storefronts at left join the alleyway in the center and an anonymous man seated at right in suggesting value in the vernacular.
1903, Everett Shinn, Steps between Houses (Paris Street) [pastel] -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: Everett Shinn worked in the 1890s as an illustrator for Philadelphia and New York newspapers, joining George Luks and John Sloan--who, like him, would soon make their names as realist painters. Steps between Houses possesses the loose network of lines and sense of immediacy he first demonstrated in his quickly rendered, early commercial work. This pastel elaborates on sketches that the artist made during a six-month trip to Paris in 1900. Here, Shinn makes the act of looking a subject matter in its own right. Along with the foreshortened steps creating diagonal lines of sight, the windows, shop signs, and poster text encourage close observation. The storefronts at left join the alleyway in the center and an anonymous man seated at right in suggesting value in the vernacular.