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Philip Evergood"Great Neck Landscape" American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPAc. 1935
c. 1935
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"Great Neck Landscape" American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA
PHILIP HOWARD EVERGOOD (1901 - 1973)
Great Neck Landscape
12 x 16 inches
Oil on board, circa 1935.
Signed at lower right
Framed: 17 x 21 inches
BIO
Philip Evergood was born in New York City on October 26, 1901. His father, an artist named Meyer Blashki, was an Australian Jew of Polish descent who had emigrated to the United States, but his mother was a member of a well-to-do Anglican family who was determined to have her son educated in her native England. When Philip failed to get past the Committee of Admirals for entrance into the Royal Naval Training College, his father fired off an angry letter to the First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, demanding to know whether the boy's last name had influenced the admirals. Convinced that it had, Meyer Blashki renamed himself and his son Evergood and the boy duly did time at both Eton and Cambridge. But Cambridge and Philip did not long agree, for he finally made up his mind that all he wanted to do was paint.
He studied art at the Slade School in London, Julian Academie in Paris, and the Art Students' League of New York. He met his wife Julia in Paris and they eventually settled in Manhattan. On canvas, Evergood's figures were apt to be as chunky as himself, his colors applied in solid, intrically designed blocks. But the mood could be as soft as a glow. Occasionally Evergood would vent his rage against the world in brilliant clashing clutters of symbolic figures. But there remains an almost childlike sweetness that he had never been able to outgrow.
During the 1930s he was a muralist for the Works Progress Administration and was President of the New York Artists Union. He taught at various institutions in the 1940s and in 1952 moved to Southbury, Connecticut and two years later to Bridgeport where he lived until his death in 1973.
- Creator:Philip Evergood (1901-1973, American)
- Creation Year:c. 1935
- Dimensions:Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 21 in (53.34 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1156215847242
Philip Evergood
Philip Evergood was an American Social Realist painter. An advocate for civil rights, much of his work depicted the daily lives of working-class people, as seen in his hallmark piece, Sunnyside of the Street (1950). “Actually if you paint a group of country folk having a feast like Brueghel did it's social painting, too,” the artist said. “But then when you get down to paintings like The Massacre of the Innocents (1566) by Brueghel when Holland was occupied by the Spanish and you have people smashing doors down and bringing out infants and cutting them in half with swords then you're doing a very brave kind of social statement.” Born Howard Blashki in 1901 in New York, NY, his father was the Australian landscape painter Miles Evergood. It was his father that anglicized the family name from the Jewish-Polish Blashki to Evergood, when Philip was a child. Moving with his parents to London in 1909, he went on to study at Eton College and Cambridge University. Set on pursuing a career in art he enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, studying under Henry Tonks. Returning to New York in 1923, he studied with the Ashcan School painter George Luks. During the Great Depression, the artist worked for the WPA, creating murals in both Queens, NY, and Jackson, GA. Evergood died in 1973 in Bridgewater, CT. Today, his works are included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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