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EVERETT SHINN The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Chapter Three.
Watercolor and pencil on paper, circa 1941. 176x115 mm; 7x4 7/8 inches. Inscribed "3" in pencil, lower left recto.
Ex-collection Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York, with the ink stamp verso and the labels on the frame back; private collection, New York; thence by descent to the current owner, private collection, New York.
Shinn (1876-1953) began his artistic career in 1893 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He simultaneously began working at the Philadelphia Press, where he was employed as an illustrator in the Art Department alongside his fellow Ashcan artists George Luks (1867-1933), John Sloan (1871-1951) and William Glackens (1870-1938, see lot 77). After moving to New York in 1897, he bounced between different newspaper and magazine illustration jobs while also receiving commissions for publications and private projects. Shinn illustrated approximately 30 literary works, including several popular Charles Dickens (1812-1870) novels.
