Dec 14, 2023 - Sale 2656

Sale 2656 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
EVERETT SHINN
Dancing Goddesses. Oil on board, c. 1910. 540x1346 mm; 21 1/4x53 inches (framed). Signed and dated, "E. Shinn / 1910" in lower right image.

This llustration was acquired by John Hallgren, a skilled carpenter who worked for the world famous Estey Organ Co. in Battleboro Vermont, and whose mother, Louisa Johnson, worked for the Esteys as a personal maid. It was speculated that the Estey family owned numerous Shinn paintings, and sold them at auction which is where this was believed to be purchased. Shinn was a member of the Cornish Art Colony and summered there, eventually buying 18 acres of land and building a colonial home in Windsor Vermont, which along with Plainfield and Cornish N.H. made up the Colony.