Everett Shinn

Though he is associated with the dark-toned urban realists known as The Ashcan School, Everett Shinn had a very distinctive style. He worked with pastel and oil in a shorthand mode that captured light, movement, and color, though not detail. His early New York street scenes were later replaced by images of the ballet and theater, which he loved. Shinn was a great admirer of Edgar Degas (1834–1917), adopting some of the oblique angles, abbreviated compositions, and unusual viewpoints that Degas had learned from Japanese woodblock prints.

[source: TAM exhibition label]