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 and traveling, September 6–November 3, 1991; Woman, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Ill., February 21–April 22, 1984; The Ash Can School, City Hall, New York, April 28–July 7, 1975; Everett Shinn, 1873 [sic]–1953, New Jersey State Museum and traveling, September 15–November 25, 1973; Everett Shinn: Painter of City Life, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla., 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 and traveling, January 3–31, 1954ProvenanceThe artist Arthur G. Altschul, acquired in the 1940s Mr. and Mrs. Melvin S. Frank, by 1984 Acquired in 1987 from Babcock Galleries, New YorkPublished ReferencesBolger, Doreen, et al., American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989), 99, no. 2. DeShazo, Edith, “Everett Shinn,” American Art Review 1 (January–February 1974): 112 (ill., color). DeShazo, Edith, Everett Shinn, 1876–1953: A Figure in His Time (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1974), n.p. (ill., color), 207. “The Eight,” (brochure) (New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1956), n.p. (no. 11). “The ‘Eight’ Who Made Revolution in U.S. Art,” Life, March 3, 1958, 46, 47 (ill., color). Everett Shinn, 1873 [sic]–1953 (Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1973), 33 (ill., no. 19). Francis, Jacqueline, “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.). Garraty, John A., The American Nation: A History of the United States (New York: Harper and Row, 1968), 835 (ill., color). Impressionism and its influence in American Art (Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1954), n.p. (no. 33). An Intimate Eye (2005), 6. Madden, Edward H., and Marian C. Madden, “Transcendental Dimensions of American Art,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32 (Spring 1996): 171. Magill, Frank N., ed., Great Events from History—Worldwide Twentieth Century Series, 3 vols. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1980), 1:xiv. Milroy, Elizabeth, Painters of a New Century: The Eight and American Art (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1991), 120 (ill., color), 131 (no. 18). “Osimu Gniewnych Malarzy,” Ameryka (U.S. Information Service Magazine) 37 (1961): 20, 21 (ill., color). Pachter, Marc, “The Rise of New York,” Humanities 4 (August 1983): 7. Perlman, Bennard B., The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show (1870–1913) (New York: Exposition Press, 1962), n.p. (ill.). Perlman, Bennard B., The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show, 1870–1913 (New York: North Light, 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 (April 1976): 29 (ill., color). Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), ix, 3, 4, 35, 36-37, 42, 202, 203 (ill. xiv, 4, 35, Table of contents). Woman (Evanston, Ill.: Terra Museum of American Art, 1984), 32 (ill., color, no. 36).