About the Artwork
Mark Twain
1951
Everett Shinn
1876-1953
American
Unknown
Watercolor, gouache, ink, and graphite pencil on paper
Overall: 10 1/4 × 13 3/4 inches (26 × 34.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman
58.397
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: Everett Shinn | 1951
Inscribed, on mat below: "Drawing of Mark Twain made from sketches made by Everett Shinn in Mark Twain's studio at 14 West 19th Street, New York City. Sketches made about 1903 - above drawing made 1951."
Provenance
1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Collection in Progress. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1955, no. 35.
Deshazo, E. Everett Shinn. New York, 1974, pp. 37-38 (ill.).
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Everett Shinn, Mark Twain, 1951, watercolor, gouache, ink, and graphite pencil on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, 58.397.
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