Philip Howard Evergood

Born Philip Blashki in New York City, Philip Evergood was educated in England, at Eton College and Cambridge University. He studied sculpture at the Slade School of Art in London from 1921 to 1923, after which time he briefly attended the Art Students League of New York, working under George Luks. He continued his training at the Academie Julian in Paris during 1924-25, visited southern France and Italy in 1926, and then returned to New York, where he had his first solo exhibition composed of religious and allegorical works in 1927. He traveled abroad again in 1929, spending the next three years in France and Spain.After settling in New York in 1931, he was strongly influenced by the depression and its effects on the American people. As a result, he turned his attention to social themes, such as political oppression and racism, as well as depictions of the daily life of the common man. While essentially realistic, his style had strong Expressionist overtones created through line and color. A leading Social Realist, he belonged to the American Artists Congress, the Arrests Union, the Works Progress Administration, and other related organizations. During the 1940s, Evergood incorporated a greater degree of Surrealist fantasy into his paintings, drawings, and prints, while retaining the graphic linearity that remained so important to his work.Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries. 
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