13 Facts About Miles Evergood

Miles Evergood was an Australian artist who achieved recognition in Europe and the United States, as well as his native country.

Miles Evergood was the father of American artist Philip Evergood.

Miles Evergood was educated at the Melbourne Hebrew Day School and Angel College, later crediting his ability to write and to argue to influential teachers there, especially Rev Jacob Goldstein.

Miles Evergood studied at the National Gallery School of Art under Frederick McCubbin and Bernard Hall between 1893 and 1895.

Miles Evergood exhibited at the Victorian Artists Society, and the Royal Art Society of New South Wales, Sydney, before leaving for the United States in 1898 together with fellow-artist Frank McComas.

Miles Evergood worked for the Hearst newspapers in San Francisco before moving on to New York City, where he exhibited and was invited to be a member of both the Salamgundi and Lotos Clubs.

Miles Evergood went to London, where he married Flora Jane Perry, whom he had probably met in Sydney.

In 1910 Miles Evergood exhibited five paintings in the first exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists held in New York.

Miles Evergood changed his name to Miles Evergood about 1914 in London, to enable his son Philip to get a commission in the British Navy.

Miles Evergood returned to Australia in July 1931 and worked for eighteen months in Queensland and became a member of the Royal Queensland Art Society.

Miles Evergood then went to Sydney and then Melbourne holding exhibitions of his work, and died of cancer in Melbourne on 3 January 1939.

Miles Evergood was a capable artist, who mostly painted landscapes in oil with affinities to the Post-Impressionists.

Miles Evergood left a de facto partner, Pauline Konitzer Romero, and his son, Philip Evergood, who became an artist living in America, substantially eclipsing the career of his father Miles.