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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
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
On viewCentury
- Twentieth
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 Twentieth-Century American Art, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minneapolis and traveling, April 20 – August 4, 2002; Director's Choice: An Exhibition for the Governor's Residence, Governor's Home Harrisburg, PA, June 14 – October 31, 1987; 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Selected American Paintings, 1750-1950, Westmoreland Museum of Art, May 20 – July 22, 1984; Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the original 'The Eight' Show' New York, February 1908.ProvenanceEx-collection: James Graham and Sons, New YorkPublished ReferencesBoylan, Alexis L. Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (New York, KY: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing Inc., 2017) 161-163 (ill. plate 22).
Davidson, Susan et a;. Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation (New York, NY: Merrell Publishers Limited, 2007) 30, 189 (189 ill.)
Londré, Felicia Hardison. "On the Edge of Your Seat: Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art." Theatre History Studies 23 (2003), 115.
McDonnell, Patricia and Robert C. Allen et al. On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002) 35 (Color Ill.).
Wong, Janay. Everett Shinn: The Spectacle of Life (New York, NY: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc, 2000) 87, 110 (87 ill.)
Adams, Henry. 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Selected American Paintings, 1750-1950 (Greenburg PA: Westmoreland Museum of Art, 1984) 11, 90 (90 ill.).
Perlman, Bennard B. and John Sloan. The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show, 1870-1913. (Cincinnati, OH: North Light Publishers, 1979) 159 (ill.)
Henry, Charles T. Commemorating the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Original "The Eight" Show (New York, NY: James Graham & Sons, 1908) listed and shown in exhibition catalog, no page numbers.
Davy, , Diane Challis. "Made in America: Trailblazing Artists and Their Stories." Pageant of the Masters (Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 2021) no page numbers (color ill.).