The Vaudeville Act

Artist Everett Shinn (American, 1873 - 1953)

Date1902–1903

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number74.46

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedtop left: EVERETT SHINN

Exhibition HistoryInaugural installation: 20th Century American Galleries (103), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present. On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early 20th-Century American Art, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 20–August 4, 2002; Montclair Art Museum, NJ, September 15, 2002–January 5, 2003; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, February 22–May 18, 2003. Director's Choice: An Exhibition for the Governor's Residence, Governor's Residence, Harrisburg, PA, June 10–September 8, 1987. 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Selected American Paintings, 1750–1950, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA, May 20–July 22, 1984. Everett Shinn (1876–1953): Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Original "The Eight" Show—New York, February 1908, James Graham and Sons, New York, February 1–28, 1958. Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur B. Davies, William J. Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Macbeth Gallery, New York, February 3–15, 1908. [exhibition of "The Eight"; whether or not "Vaudeville Act" was exhibited here is debated]ProvenanceJames Graham and Sons, New YorkPublished References"Made in America: Trailblazing Artists and Their Stories," Pageant of the Masters (Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 2021), n.p. (ill., color). David Monod, Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), cover. Adam M. Thomas, From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2019), xi. Alexis L. Boylan, Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2017), 161–63, pl. 22. Moments of Change: Astonish Me! The Turn of the 20th Century, 1889–1914 (University Park: Institute for the Arts and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008), 8 (ill., color), 21. Susan Davidson, ed., Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation (New York: Merrell Publishers, 2007), 30, 189 (ill.). Heritage Auction Catalogue: Fine American and European Paintings and Sculpture, May 24–25 2007 (Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2007), 87. Undergraduate Programs in Art History at Penn State, 2006–2007, Department of Art History (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, 2006), front cover. Felicia Hardison Londré, "On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art," Theatre History Studies 23 (2003): 115. Patricia McDonnell, On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), 35 (ill., color). Janay Wong, Everett Shinn: The Spectacle of Life (New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2000), 87 (fig. 7), 110n292. Palmer Museum of Art (University Park: Palmer Museum of Art, 1993), 36, 37 (ill., color). The Penn Stater, May/June 1985, front cover. 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Selected American Paintings, 1750–1950, exh. cat. (Greensburg, PA: Westmoreland Museum of Art, 1984), 11 (no. 99), 90 (ill.). Bennard B. Perlman, The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show, 1870–1913 (Cincinnati, OH: North Light Publishers, 1979), 159 (ill.). [reproducing the catalogue of the 1908 "The Eight" exhibition, with the painting "Gaiété, Montparnasse," which may not be the same as "Vaudeville Act."] Faculty-Staff Directory, 1977–1978 (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, 1977), n.p., front cover. Everett Shinn (1876–1953): Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Original "The Eight" Show—New York, February 1908, exh. cat. (New York: James Graham & Sons, 1958), no. 1. Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur B. Davies, William J. Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, exh. cat. (New York: Macbeth Galleries, 1908), no. 1. [possibly as "Gaiété, Montparnasse," though whether this is the same as "Vaudeville Act" is debatable.]