Earl Shinn
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Earl Shinn (November 8, 1838 – November 3, 1886) was an American
Early life and career
Shinn was born in
In April 1866, after having returned to
As art critic
Shinn's doubts about his painting abilities never left him during his time in France. By the end of his studies at the Ecole, he had resolved that his would not be the life of a painter, thanks in large part, it seems, to his poor eyesight. He wrote to his sister in 1867, "Art I should like, and I have a vocation for it; but I think my near-sightedness, color-blindness and failing vision are pretty strong hints from nature that that career is not intended for me..."
Shinn spent several months in
During the 1870s and 1880s, Shinn wrote a number of books on art (under the pseudonym "Edward Strahan"), including a catalogue of the art gallery at the 1876
Shinn was also a member of the Tile Club, a group of New York artists and writers whose membership included Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. He wrote the first two chapters of A Book of the Tile Club before his death in New York in 1886.
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View of the Main Building from the Jury Pavilion (1878)
References
- ^ Earl Shinn to Anna Shinn Shipley, July 3, 1867. Richard Tapper Cadbury Collection, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.