The White Ballet by Everett Shinn - Postcard

The White Ballet, painted in 1904 by American artist Everett Shinn, captures the luminous spectacle of a ballet performance from the darkened theatre. A long row of ballerinas in white tutus fills the stage, their graceful movements illuminated against a softly painted green backdrop, while spectators and the orchestra pit emerge from the shadowed foreground.

Shinn brings the viewer unusually close to the performance. The cropped composition places the audience, musicians and dancers within the same visual space, creating the feeling of watching the ballet from a theatre box. Dramatic contrasts between darkness and stage light heighten the sense of movement and theatrical atmosphere. The Smithsonian American Art Museum notes Shinn's use of compositional devices associated with Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in this work.

The original The White Ballet is an oil painting on canvas measuring 74.9 × 93.3 cm and is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. This fine-art postcard brings Shinn's atmospheric theatre scene into the world of paper correspondence — a distinctive choice for art lovers, ballet enthusiasts, postcard collectors, postcrossing and snail mail.

Density -350 g/m

Glossy lamination on the front side of the postcard.

Size - 10*15cm