Philip Evergood Figurative Paintings
American, 1901-1973
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.to
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Artist: Philip Evergood
Philip Evergood American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Still Life Interior
By Philip Evergood
Located in New York, NY
Interior with Man at Table American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Painting
Philip Evergood (1901 - 1973) Untitled (Interior with Man at ...
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1930s American Modern Philip Evergood Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Panel
Cowboys
Mustang Horse
By Philip Evergood
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Philip Evergood Figurative Paintings
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untitled ( Civil Rights )
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
Evergood is decades ahead of his time in shouting out against racial injustice. Painted in the late 1950's KKK is an important work. For Philip Evergood (born Philip Blashki), pain...
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1950s American Modern Philip Evergood Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Railroad Men
s Wives - American Scene Painting - Social Realism
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
American Scene Painting - Social Realism. The present work is a Depression Era account of working-class men and women.
Philip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood (born Howard Blashki; 190...
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1930s Expressionist Philip Evergood Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
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1950s American Realist Philip Evergood Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Dusk in the Garden - Greenwich Village - Moody Monochromatic - Whitney Museum
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
The setting reminds us of a Rear Window by Alfred Hickcock but Evergood did it 8 years before.
It's most likely Greenwich Village since Evergood lived there.
This is a very big and heavy to lift painting
Signed lower left
Framed 56 x 51 in a period very heavy rustic wood frame.
Exhibited Center Gallery, Bucknell University, PA, among others venus.
gallery label remnants on verso - The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annual 1949 - Label
Provenance: Naomi and Walter Rosenblum
Best Viewed with a top gallery light...
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1940s Expressionist Philip Evergood Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Boy Eating Watermelon
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
The work looks much better in person with snappy bright colors that form a complex abstract composition of interconnected shapes.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, The Work is Signed lower left - Provenance: Forum Gallery, New York - Label on verso
Swann Gallery...
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1960s Expressionist Philip Evergood Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Philip Evergood, Little Rock, Oil on Canvas, 1955 - "Civil Rights."
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
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1950s American Realist Philip Evergood Figurative Paintings
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Oil
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