The Pulitzer Fountain by Night, Grand Army Plaza, New York by Everett Shinn

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Everett Shinn

( 1876 – 1953 )

“The Pulitzer Fountain by Night, Grand Army Plaza, New York”

Medium	Watercolour and gouache on board
Signed	Signed lower left
Size	6.00" × 8.50" (15.2cm × 21.6cm)
Framed Size	12.50" × 16.00" (31.8cm × 40.6cm)
Dated	c. 1916
Condition	Very good condition
Provenance	Private collection - United States

Summary

A luminous nocturnal view of Grand Army Plaza by one of the most celebrated members of the Ashcan School and The Eight, the group of American painters who transformed the direction of early twentieth-century art in the United States. Everett Shinn was uniquely attuned to the drama of New York at night. Where his Ashcan contemporaries — Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks — gravitated towards the tenements and back streets, Shinn was drawn to the city's more theatrical settings: its stages, its public squares, its fashionable gathering places. Grand Army Plaza, at the southeastern entrance to Central Park, was precisely such a location — a space where architecture, light, and the movement of the crowd combined to create the kind of spectacle he spent his career pursuing. In this work, Shinn captures the plaza on a damp evening, the wet pavement reflecting the glow of electric light from the surrounding buildings. Figures in dark overcoats move purposefully across the foreground, their forms suggested rather than defined, while the Pulitzer Fountain — topped by Karl Bitter's bronze figure of Pomona — rises at the left, half-absorbed into the atmosphere of the night. The palette is dominated by deep blues and blue-greens, punctuated by warm notes of yellow and amber from the illuminated windows above. The effect is at once atmospheric and immediate — a city caught in motion. The handling throughout demonstrates Shinn's mastery of the watercolour medium. Transparent washes establish the depth and tone of the night sky and the slick surfaces of the plaza, while touches of opaque gouache pick out the highlights — the bright windows, the gleam of wet stone, the pale flash of a face or hand. It is a technique that owes much to the influence of Degas, an artist to whom Shinn was frequently compared and whose ability to combine observation with atmosphere he shared.

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