"Christmas Pudding, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens" Lot no. 612
By Everett Shinn
1941 (Estimated)
16.00" x 12.00"
Watercolor and Pencil on Paperboard
Signed Lower Left
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“Mrs. Cratchit entered: flushed, but smiling proudly with the pudding…” Story illustration for the short story "The Seven Poor Travelers" by Charles Dickens, published in Christmas in Dickens, published by Garden City Publishing Co., 1941, page 55. Subsequently published in A Christmas Carol, published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997, illustrated page 96.
The full caption in A Christmas Carol reads:
“In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered: flushed, but smiling proudly: with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.”
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
As one of "The Eight," Everitt Shinn, made a lively contribution to American art both in the gallery and on the printed page.
His milieu was New York, Broadway, the theatre, and colorful public gatherings. His immense artistic facility was always evident, developed in his early career as a newspaper illustrator which demanded rapid, on-the-scene drawings for immediate deadlines. An individual of great enthusiasms and many interests, Shinn was also an accomplished inventor, playwright, and actor. He took on illustration commissions sporadically throughout his career, mostly when he needed money, working for The Century, McClure's, and Hearst's International as well as several book projects in the 1930's, such as The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Rip van Winkle.
A mural, done for the residence of his new friend, Clyde Fitch, le to a large number of other such projects, including those of the Belasco Theatre, the Oak Room of the Plaza Hotel in New York, and a 22 x 44 foot mural for the Trenton, New Jersey City Hall.
Shinn is represented in many collections and museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Phillips Memorial Gallery.