The Laundress

Artist Everett Shinn (American, 1873 - 1953)

Date1903

MediumPastel on paper

DimensionsOverall: 26 5/8 x 21 1/2 in. (67.6 x 54.6 cm), frame: 39 5/8 x 34 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (100.6 x 87.3 x 4.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.107

Collections

ClassificationsWork on Paper

Object NamePastel

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom right: EVERETT SHINN/1903

Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 “Varied and Untried”: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13–May 5, 2013 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Painters of a New Century: The Eight and American Art, organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, September 6–November 3, 1991; Denver Art Museum, December 7–February 16, 1992; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, April 16–June 7, 1992; Brooklyn Museum, June 26–September 21, 1992 [shown in Canada and Brooklyn only] Woman, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL, February 21–April 22, 1984 The Ash Can School, City Hall, New York, April 28–July 7, 1975 Everett Shinn, 1873–1953, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, September 15–November 25, 1973; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, December 14, 1973–February 17, 1974; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, March 10–April 28, 1974; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, May 12–June 16, 1974 Everett Shinn: Painter of City Life, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, January 7–26, 1969 The Eight, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, October 8–November 3, 1956 Impressionism and its Influence in American Art, organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art, January 3–31, 1954; Seattle Art Museum, February 10–March 7, 1954; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, March 21–April 18, 1954; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, May 3–20, 1954; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, June 8–July 15, 1954ProvenanceThe artist Arthur G. Altschul, acquired in the 1940s Mr. and Mrs. Melvin S. Frank, by 1984 Babcock Galleries, New York Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1987 from Babcock Galleries Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), xiv (ill., color, detail), 3, 4 (fig, 4), 35 (fig. 2), 36–37, 42, 202 (ill., color), 203. An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 63). Jacqueline Francis, “Modern Art, ‘Racial Art’: The Work of Malvin Gray Johnson and the Challenges of Painting, 1928–1934” (Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 2000), 27, 155, 257 (ill.). Edward H. Madden and Marian C. Madden, “Transcendental Dimensions of American Art,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 171. Elizabeth Milroy, Painters of a New Century: The Eight and American Art (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1991), 120 (ill., color), 131 (no. 18). Doreen Bolger et al., American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989), 99no2. "Celebrating Our 135th Anniversary," The Magazine Antiques 132 (December 1987): 1170, 1171 (ill., color). Woman (Evanston, IL: Terra Museum of American Art, 1984), 32 (ill., color, no. 36). Marc Pachter, “The Rise of New York,” Humanities 4, no. 3 (August 1983): 7. Frank N. Magill, ed., Great Events from History—Worldwide Twentieth Century Series, vol. 1 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1980), xiv. Bennard B. Perlman, The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show, 1870–1913 (Westport, CT: North Light Publishers, 1979), 84 (ill.). Reprinted as Painters of the Ashcan School: The Immortal Eight (New York: Dover Publications, 1988). R. F. S., “The American City: A Gathering of Turn-of-the-Century Paintings,” American Heritage 27, no. 3 (April 1976): 29 (ill., color). Edith DeShazo, “Everett Shinn,” American Art Review 1, no. 2 (January–February 1974): 112 (ill., color). Edith DeShazo, Everett Shinn, 1876–1953: A Figure in His Time (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1974), 207 (ill., color). Everett Shinn, 1873–1953, exh. cat. (Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1973), 33 (ill., no. 19). John A. Garraty, The American Nation: A History of the United States (New York: Harper and Row, 1968), 835 (ill., color). Bennard B. Perlman, The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show (1870–1913) (New York: Exposition Press, 1962), n.p. (ill.). “Osimu Gniewnych Malarzy,” Ameryka: U.S. Information Service Magazine 37 (1961): 20, 21 (ill., color). “The ‘Eight’ Who Made Revolution in U.S. Art,” Life, March 3, 1958, 46–47 (ill., color). “The Eight,” (brochure) (New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1956), n.p. (no. 11). Impressionism and its Influence in American Art, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1954), n.p. (no. 33).