{"data":{"id":"1219","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":1219,"topgoose_id":3415,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":1219,"title":"Revue","display_artist_text":"Everett Shinn","display_date":"1908","accession_number":"31.346","dimensions":"Overall: 18 1/8 × 24 1/4 × 7/8 in. (46 × 61.6 × 2.2 cm)","medium":"Oil on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverett Shinn, \u003cem\u003eRevue\u003c/em\u003e, 1908. Oil on canvas, overall: 18 1/8 × 24 1/4 × 7/8 in. (46 × 61.6 × 2.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.346\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eBy 1903, the theater and thriving vaudeville houses that drew crowds from every social class had become Everett Shinn’s primary subject. Typical of much of Shinn's work, \u003ci\u003eRevue\u003c/i\u003e shows a fragmentary glimpse of the theater from which the whole scene can be imagined. Shinn uses broad, loose brushstrokes to reveal a dancer, her face warmly bathed by the footlights, exposing her ankle in mid-curtsy. His brushwork picks out the dainty ruffles and elaborate textures of the dancer’s dress, while at lower left the gently oblique point of view includes the orchestra leader. \u003ci\u003eRevue \u003c/i\u003ewas one of the paintings Shinn selected to represent his work in the landmark 1908 exhibition of urban realism organized by Robert Henri at the Macbeth Galleries in New York. The Eight, as the eight artists in the show were quickly dubbed, had individual styles, but all were rebelling against the rarefied and aristocratic themes long demanded by the academic establishment.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A woman in a white evening gown curtsies on stage while a man sketches her from below.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:45:28.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:38.264-05:00","images":[{"id":92740,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/1219/31_346_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"1215","type":"artist"}]}}}}