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...Philip Evergood...
...angry young artists who came to maturity in the 1930s, few seemed angrier than Philip Evergood, his voice still booms, his eyes go wide, his his hands and arms slash the air. And some of his paintings still roar with indignation. But by last week when when Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art opened its first Evergood retrospective show, the famed anger had mellowed into something hauntingly gentle...
...chosen, Philip Evergood could have lived a perfectly respectable life. His father, an artist named Blashki, was an Australian Jew of Polish descent who emigrated to the US but his mother was a member of a well-to-do Anglican family who was determined to have a son educated in her native England. son educated in her native England. When Philip failed to get past the Committee of Admirals for entrance into for entrance into the Naval Trainging College at Osborner, his father fired an angry letter to First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, demanding to know whether...
...studied in London, New York and Paris (where he met his wife Julia ), eventually settled in Manhattan. By that time, the Depression had hit. The bleak agony of it made its way onto canvas after canvas: the bloody strikes, the mine disasters, that numbing, job losing moment that Evergood recorded as The Pink Dismissal Slip Evergood himself was a part of the famed "219 Strike," in which 219 artists staged an ill-fated demonstration against being swept from the rolls of the WPA. He was clubed into sensibility, spent the night in a cell ankle-deep in filth. On canvas...
...behaving last week like the Madman Muntz of the art dealers' world. On the walls of his Lexington Avenue walkup were hanging drawings by 204 artists. Side by side with relative unknowns were works by such top U.S. moderns as Lyonel Feininger, William Baziotes, William Cropper, Philip Evergood and Josef Albers worth up to $250. Each drawing was marked at a flat $25. The only hitch: on none of the drawings was the artist's signature visible, and the gallery refused to say who had drawn what. The bargain show was just another way for the gallery...