Florence Scovel Shinn, early work - 2

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In Childhood's Happy Hour, from the February 1902 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine. There may be a certain sameness to the children but they are extremely well drawn. I've added the blue tint block. 

She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1897. There that she met her future, but younger, husband, the soon-to-be famous painter of the "Ashcan School*" Everett Shinn. Although Florence received a first-class education at the Academy, her pen and ink drawings are all her own and what she did for a livelihood until she began to write and publish inspirational literature.

Everett Shinn, 1876-1953

Shinn began his career as an illustrator. This is from a piece in Scribner's Monthly Magazine for April 1902

 entitled How Easter Comes to the City. The link, above, connects to his more celebrated work. 

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*On a personal note, I had the good fortune to study with Harold Irving Smith, a portrait painter and illustrator who had himself studied with Robert Henri and George Luks, two members of the "famous eight" of the Ashcan School.