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EVERETT SHINN (1876-1953) Group of four works on paper.
i) The Jewel Chest. Watercolor and pencil on tan wove paper, 1922. 280x219 mm; 11x8⅝ inches. Dedicated to Marian Chase, signed and dated in pencil, upper left.
ii) Dancer in a Palatial Interior. Gouache on the cover of a greeting card, 1922. 207x160 mm; 8⅛x6¼ inches (folded card). Dedicated to Gertrude Putnam Chase, signed and dated in ink on the lower edge.
iii) Dancer Onstage. Color crayons on notepaper. 280x218 mm; 11x8⅝ inches.
iv) Portrait. Gouache on card, 1927. 330x245 mm; 13x9⅝ inches. Dedicated to Marian Chase, signed and dated in ink, lower edge.
Provenance The artist. Given to Gertrude Putnam Chase, the artist's second wife, and her daughter Marian Chase. Private collection, New Hampshire.
The present group of works on paper were gifts to Everett Shinn's second wife, Gertrude Putnam Chase (née McManus) and her daughter Marian during the early years of their romantic relationship. Shinn first met Chase, a Broadway actress, while working in the film industry between 1921 and 1922. Chase had two children, (Horace) Gäir and Marian from her previous marriage to stockbroker Horace Stanley Chase. Shinn and Gertrude Chase married in March 1924 and divorced in 1932.
Marian Chase graduated from the Friends Seminary in New York in 1923. She became part of a social circle of creatives called "The Little Friends" by Virgil Thomson, through whom she met cinematographer and director Harry H. Dunham. Chase and Dunham married in January 1940. After Dunham died in the South Pacific during World War II, Chase became a close confidant to Thomson, before she succumbed to polio in 1951.
