20 Facts About Philip Evergood

Philip Evergood was particularly active during the Depression and World War II era.

Philip Evergood's mother was English and his father, Miles Evergood, was an Australian artist of Polish Jewish descent who, in 1915, changed the family's name from Blashki to Evergood.

Philip Evergood studied music and by 1908 he was playing the piano in a concert with his teacher.

Philip Evergood attended different English boarding schools starting in 1909 and was educated mainly at Eton and Cambridge University.

In 1923 Evergood went back to New York where he studied at the Art Students League of New York for a year, studying with George Luks and William von Schlegell.

Philip Evergood then returned to Europe, worked at various jobs in Paris, painted independently, and studied at the Academie Julian with Andre Lhote.

Philip Evergood studied with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17; Hayter taught him engraving.

Philip Evergood returned to New York in 1926 and began a career that was marked by the hardships of severe illness, an almost fatal operation, and constant financial trouble.

Philip Evergood taught both music and art as late as 1943, and finally moved to Southbury, Connecticut, in 1952.

Philip Evergood was a full member of the Art Students League of New York and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Philip Evergood was sentenced to death and executed in 1948.

Philip Evergood was charged with violating the Sullivan Act for failing to register the gun.

Philip Evergood was killed in a house fire in Bridgewater, Connecticut, in 1973 at the age of 72.

Philip Evergood's influences include El Greco, Bosch, Brueghel, Goya, Daumier, Toulouse-Lautrec, Sloan's Ashcan paintings, and even prehistoric cave art.

Philip Evergood is noted for his deliberately awkward drawing and his spontaneous bold lines.

Philip Evergood's skillfully organized sophisticated compositions are often humorous, frequently fantastic, and sometimes openly symbolic.

Philip Evergood's color is never conventional but rather evokes an extremely personal mood that reveals the artist as both militantly social and warmly sensuous.

Philip Evergood maintained a socially conscious attitude in his art for the remainder of his career, and was in fact considered to be something of a maverick.

Philip Evergood was a figurative painter when much of the art world placed greater value on abstraction, and he was a moralist when moralizing was not considered an option for serious painters.

Philip Evergood's art is founded on contradiction: sophisticated intent is matched by intentionally crude technique, and tawdry overstatement is balanced with delicate lines.