Everett Shinn

Grand Central Art Galleries, New York

IBM International Foundation, New York (acquired in 1946)

Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 1995, lot 85 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection

Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 81 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1945 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, 1945-46, no. 318, n.p.

Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, 1946, no. 234

New York, Grand Central Art Galleries and Cairo, The Royal Palace, Sixty Americans Since 1800, 1946-47, no. 30, n.p.

Tampa, Florida State Fair; New York, Binghamton Public Library; Albany Institute of Art; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Charlotte, Mint Museum; Charlotte, University of North Carolina; Kansas City, University of Kansas, Philbrook Art Center; Little Rock, Fine Arts Museum; Providence, Brown University; Endicott, New York, Harpur College and New York, Overseas Press Club, Thirty Americans Since 1860, 1948-51

New York, Grand Central Art Galleries; Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Boston Symphony Hall and Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum (and traveling), Painters of the United States: 1720-1920, 1951-53

(possibly) Endicott, New York, Harpur College, Exhibit of American Paintings from the Late Nineteenth Century to Recent Times, 1957 

Brussels, American Embassy, 1957

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Art Center, Inaugural Exhibition, 1958-59, no. 94

West Springfield, Eastern States Exposition; Knoxville, Dulin Gallery of Art, Masterpieces from the Collection of International Business Machines Corporation, 1962, no. 43, n.p. 

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, Realism: An American Heritage, 1963, no. 52, n.p.

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, Portraits from the IBM Collection, 1967, no. 24

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, American Painting 1900-1950, 1969-72

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, Portraits from the IBM Collection, 1994

Peter Hastings Falk, ed., The Annual and Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918—1989, New York, 1991, no. 138, p. 365

Everett Shinn’s He’s the Man for Me was featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 1945 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting the same year of its execution. Known for his stylistic associations with the Ashcan School, Shinn’s works emphasize the intensity and drama of twentieth century urban living. In the present work, the intricate details in the vest contrast with the stark background to imbue the work with a theatrical and grandiose quality. The present work was held within the collection of International Business Machines, or IBM, for nearly fifty years before ultimately residing in a private collection for the past two decades.