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...PHILIP EVERGOOD...
About The American Shrimp Girl [TIME, July 25]: I should like to suggest to Painter Philip Evergood that he concentrate on painting sea gulls, shrimp and fish and that he leave the painting of typical American girls to artists more capable than he. For TIME to mention his kindergarten canvas in the same breath as Hogarth's masterpiece [see cut] is nothing short of sacrilegious. Before Evergood can be a good painter, he will have to learn the meaning of humility...
...Evergood's canvas is a New World extension of Hogarth's more modest hymn to feminine vitality, the 18th century Shrimp Girl in London's National Gallery. Where Hogarth suppressed all detail and strong color to concentrate on his model's glowing face, Evergood does the opposite. His girl is no prettier or more sensate-seeming than a doll, with chalky flesh and blaring costume. Yet she dominates her cluttered setting like a new, pagan deity, a personification of summertime on American shores...
...Painter Evergood, a plump and tweedy 53, looks as quiet and gentle as Hirshhorn does quick and forceful. The impression is false. Manhattan-born Evergood was educated at Eton and Cambridge, but says he "wasn't fitted for that academic rah-rah stuff." He studied art in England, France and the U.S., came into his own with the Great Depression and the W.P.A. His choleric temperament led him to heel far left for a time, made him a top "proletarian painter" of the 1930s...
...while thereafter, Evergood seemed to have been beached on the mudbank of the Depression. His bitterness began to have a period flavor, and fell from favor. But with his like-minded peers Jack Levine and Ben Shahn, Evergood has come back strong in recent years, steadily, if spottily, extending the range of his art. An Evergood show today is apt to run the gamut from gloomy realism through cartoon-style satire to exuberant fantasy, and to include some of the freshest and most skillful canvases of the season...