The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-02-09
EVERETT SHINN'S ORIGINAL
PASTELS,

fAS ELS.
A young reporter named Everett
Shinn is showing some pastels in New
York.
Ihere are over ninety, and they vary
in size from the mere trifie up to the
more important dimensions OF the arms
length. They are, in their way, the
finest things that have been produced
in this country since Columbus set his
Jaw and bribed his men to get him here.
They constitute, taken as a whole, with
the Shinn Exhibition OF last year, with
what We may assume he will do in the
next few, and with book he is prepar.
ing for publication called New York
By Night" the beet report We have so
far had OF Things As They Are Not Co.
ing To Be Much Longer, but as they
are today.
1t might have been supposed that our
American Charles Keene would walk in
from, says Indiana. Stephen Crane, an
other great reporter came from a neigh
boring county. Everett Shinn came
over from New Jersey by way of an art
school in Philadelphia, where he says
he spent most Of his time talking to A
Girl or playing leapfrog up and down
the halls. From that he passed into
newspaper illustrating to earn his living,
still in Philadelphia, and from that into
his present pastel work in New York.
The young man is young, normal,
buoyant, works with a consuming en-
ergy, and has clear. cut, pale face that
lights up at times with a sort of half
light that is seen occasionally in the
faces of men and women who are pass
ing up what they know Of truth instead
Of fslsehood into the hands Of the Mas
ter Builder. 1t is The light that must
have shown in the face of Crane al he
lay dying not long ago in the Black
Forest. II he felt anything he must
have known that what he passed up was
the surprising beauty Of the common
things; that he had helped the world to
see beauty in common human life; that
he had harbored it in it's slow develop
ment to the point where it is beginning
to distinguish between what is false and
what is true. only now growing so sensi.
tized that it can the beauty of fact;
he must have realized and rejoiced that
the modern stomach is healthy enough
already to want its food at least half
true, and that he had done his part to
make it so; he must have known that
when Realism is understood, and men
begin to love her. then the world will
feel as though it had Dever loved before;
he had felt 10 his tired body that hu-
mainly had cause, indeed, to stop and
wonder why there should be a master
and slave, and that to get the facts
before humanity was necessary; he
knew that he had shown up the false
and bad and the disorganized, as in his
Maggie as a proof of how much he
had loved the fine and free; he knew
that men and women must think and
paint and write and work and die, until
the world shall learn so much that it
will know that the Real holds the Ideal
always in its tender arms. and that the
Unreal alone stands empty at the gates.
And the same is true OF Shinn. The
inspiration that is filling all the worlds
keen minds with the hope o: greater
justice is the inspiration Of the Realistic
School. And go it matter not that,
when he goes away sometimes with bis
young wife to skate, oyer the meadows
near h,s Southern New Jersey home,