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Florence Scovell Shinn (1869 - 1940) was an early 20th century "success" author, spiritual teacher and speaker. She is best known for her first book The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925). Starting out as an artist in the Cornish Colony of artists, she turned to writing about spiritual themes in her forties and lived in New York. Her art is still being auctioned and her writing is still in print. Her obituary appeared in the New York Times in 1940 remembering her as an artist, writer and lecturer specialisting in metaphysics and as an illustrator.^[1]

Contents 1 Early life and art studies 2 Cornish Colony 3 Illustrator 4 Books and writing 5 New Thought movement 6 New article research1 7 Life 8 Studies 9 Collections 10 Patrick White 11 The stories 12 Contents 13 Critical reception

Early life and art studies

Florence Scovel was born Septemer 24, 1871, in Camden, New Jersey. Her mother was formerly Emily Hopkinson of Pennsylvania. Her father, Alden Cortlandt Scovel, practiced law in Camden. Florence had an older sister and younger brother. She was educated in Philadelphia at the Friends Central School and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1897. While a student, she met her future husband, Everett Shinn (1876 - 1953), who was a fairly celebrated painter of impressionistic canvases and realistic murals. Although Florence was educated at the art Academy, she could always draw in pen and ink.^[2]

Cornish Colony

She and Everett married shortly after her graduation and became part of the Cornish Colony of artists, painters, sculptors, illustrators, dancers and writers in New Hampshire where New York artists would spend the summer. Everett was known for his illustrations, urban genre, and murals. Florence Shinn's work featured in the 2002 exhibition catalogue: The Women of the Cornish Colony.^[3]Of the varying lives of the women, Alma Gilbert wrote:

Many of the women’s faces and figures are seen as models not only for their husbands but also for other major artists. Lydia Parrish, Lucia Fuller, Maria Oakey Dewing, Edith Prellwitz, Florence Shinn, Adeline Pond Adams, Bessie Potter Vonnoh and Marguerite Zorach posed for their husbands’ work. . . The women of the colony were also sought and admired for their beauty by other artists outside of their immediate circle. John Singer Sargent painted Lucia Fuller as well as Bessie Potter Vonnoh. . . William Howard Hart. . .^[4]

A problem with the colony for women's careers as surveyed by Alma Gilbert was to do with conflicting roles and domestic demands with their art accomplishments.^[5]

Illustrator

The Shinns pursued separate art careers while they lived at Washington Square where they were active in the art scene and socially – Everett in theatre, painting scenes and writing plays starring Florence.^[6]

Before World War I Florence was a children's illustrator for books and magazines recognised today for her part of the "Golden Age" of American illustration^[7] In 1912 after 14 years of marriage and at about the time the artists' colony came to an end,^[8] they divorced while remaining friends (Florence attended Everett's next three weddings).^[9]

At Cornish she completed 30 drawings for fellow colonist, Winston Churchill (author, not policitian), for his novel Coniston.

Florence Shinn's work as an illustrator can also be viewed in Alice Rice's books, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch and Lovely Mary. Her work was exhibited in New York in 1906 at the Kraushaar Gallery.^[10]

Books and writing

Unable to find a publisher for The Game of Life and How to Play It she published it herself in 1925.^[11] "Your Word is Your Wand" was published in 1928 and The Secret Door to Success was published in 1940 shortly before her death on October 17, 1940. The Power of the Spoken Word is a compendium of her notes, gathered by a student and published postumously in 1945.^[12]

Shinn had the ability to explain her success principles and how they work in an entertaining and easy-to-read style. She used real-life stories to illustrate her belief that positive attitudes and affirmations made a person a "winner" in life, able to control life's conditions and release abundance through a knowledge of spiritual law.^[13]

New Thought movement

Shinn was part of the New Thought movement, her writings following the tradition of Phineas Quimby (1802 - 1866), Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925), and Charles Fillmore (1854 - 1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845 - 1931), co-founders of the Unity Church.^[14]

Scovel Shinn was also a contemporary of William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932), James Allen (1864 - 1912) and Emmet Fox (1886 - 1951).

She taught that ignorance of or carelessness with the application of various "Laws of Metaphysics" could bring about undesirable life events (see her books).

Ronni Bogaev (b. November 13, 1924, d. July 25, 1993)^[15]is a photorealist artist from Florida.

Ronni Bogaev (American Painter 1924-1992).^[16]

Life

Ronni Bogaev (daughter of David (Bogaevsky) Bogaev and Leba (Luba) Voloshin) was born November 13, 1924 in Philadephia, Penna, and died July 25, 1993 in Coconut Grove, Florida. She married (1) Norman Lodin. She married (2) Robert Wolk. She married (3) Eleazer Greenstein.^[17]

Studies

Bogaev studied at the Hussian School of Art and the Pennsylvainia Academy of Fine Arts. Residing in Coconut Grove, she is one of the area's most celebrated artists, exhibiting widely throughout Florida. ^[18]

Collections

When the Miami-Dade Public library system expanded its services to the county's neighborhoods by establishing branch and regional libraries, artwork placement began with the acquisition of a series of paintings by Ronni Bogaev, among others.^[19]

Ronni Bogaev Memorial Scholarship Endowment^[20] was set up in support of the New World School of the Arts (NSWSA) in Miami Florida, with its program of music, dance, theatre, and the visual arts.

Ronni Bogaev Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund Daybreak, 1985 1985 Academy Awards ^[21]

Works: Calle Ocho Details: Painting - Oil 65in X 48in 1980 South Regional Courthouse

Description: Similar to Photo-realism, the artist's painterly image depends on reflection and close attention to detail in projecting the harmony of this colorful street scene, combining the natural images of flowers with the modern structure of a soda machine. This painting is installed on the ground floor of the Courthouse.

The Burnt Ones is a collection of 11 short stories by Australian writer Patrick White, first published by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1964. Penguin Books published it in 1968 with reprints in 1972 and 1974.

The stories

All but four of the stories are set in Australia and those four are set in Greece. The suburb of Sarsaparilla, the setting for several stories, is like "Our Town" of Thornton Wilder, but with White's "beadily disapproving gaze".^[22]

White's first collection of a series of three, The Burnt Ones characters are haunted by feelings of isolation, intense self-examination, and an acute awareness of how they are different from others. They follow the them of loneliness as do The Cockatoos, and Three Uneasy Pieces, his third and last collection.^[23]

Contents

• Dead Roses
• Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight
• A Glass of Tea
• Clay
• The Evening at Sissy Kamara's
• A Cheery Soul
• Being Kind to Titina
• Miss Slattery and her Demon Lover
• The Letters
• The Woman who wasn't Allowed to Keep Cats
• Down at the Dump

Titling is as printed in the 1974 edition.

Critical reception

White's short stories are criticized for their multiplicity of symbols, myths, and allegories, as were his longer works of fiction. Critic Hameeda Hossain says, “In describing the pathos of a slow crumbling of suburban souls, his stories evoke a sense of tragedy... of a whole way of life."^[24] Scholar William Walsh describes his dense poetic imagery as penetrating beyond material appearances to "mysterious actuality”.^[25]