Shinn, Earl, 1838-1886
Painter, Art critic
Size: 0.1 linear ft. (on partial microfilm reel)
Summary: Approximately 100 page journal of Shinn's handwritten notes with some newspaper clippings glued in pertaining to the Bible, and history; reports of sales of paintings by Courbet, Delacroix, Ingres, Millet; lists of major European galleries and the size of collections; artists' biographies; and notes on Japanese art, especially Hokusai.
Art critic Earl Shinn wrote under the pseudonym of Edward Strahan.
The Earl Shinn commonplace book is part of the Charlotte White collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Microfilm reel 3656 (frames 1040-1115) available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan, and at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Free Library of Philadelphia.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Earl Shinn journal in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1870-1882. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
