A French Music Hall

Artist Everett Shinn (1876 - 1953)

Date1906

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions24 x 29 1/2 in. (61 x 74.9 cm)
Framed: 34 × 40 × 4 in.

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2010.90

Signedl.l.: Everett Shinn 1906

Accession number 2010.90

On View

Not on view

Provenancethe Artist; to Lotos Club, New York, NY, 1946; to (Hammer Gallery, New York, NY), 1963; to Rita Fraad [1915-2004] and Daniel Fraad [1912-1987], 1963; (Sotheby's, New York, NY), December 1, 2004, lot 20; purchased by a private foundation for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2004
Label TextBy cropping the view of the orchestra pit and the stage, Everett Shinn collapses the distance between the audience and the show, placing the viewer in the audience, where a fellow spectator turns to look at us. Shinn painted this scene after a visit to Paris, but theaters of all kinds thrived in American cities at the time, providing public places where the rich and working class alike could experience leisure activities.

Al recortar la vista del foso de la orquesta y del escenario, Everett Shinn reduce la distancia entre la audiencia y el espectáculo y nos sitúa entre el público, donde una mujer se vuelve para mirarnos. Shinn pintó esta escena después de una visita a París, pero en las ciudades estadounidenses de la época abundaban los teatros de todo tipo, que ofrecían lugares públicos donde tanto los ricos como la clase trabajadora podían disfrutar de actividades de ocio.