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...painter of a private paradise whose homeland is alternately the Bible and Greek mythology. At times he thinks of himself as a talented youth burned in the fiery furnace, at times he is a centaur gadding about with nymphs, or Solomon dickering with his harem. In those years Evergood was a very young and a very immature painter...
...PHILIP EVERGOOD New York City...
Among the not-so-well-known fellow travelers: Anthologist Ben Botkin; Playwright Arnaud (Deep Are the Roots) d'Usseau; Artists Philip Evergood,* Raphael Soyer and Max Weber; Pianist Ray Lev. Just over half were members of the Masses & Mainstream staff...
...theatrical. He illuminates almost every scene with the pitiless white glare of stage lighting-never sunlight or moonlight-and his actors move and speak with exaggerated force. These devices, skillfully employed, make Koerner's paintings more arresting than those of such established U.S. realists as Philip Evergood and Ben Shahn. But they are not enough to explain his disturbing power. Koerner's storytelling art is one of implication, and its very theatricalism serves to imply that the "real" world which man has made is equally a fabric of illusions...
...critics no longer voted conservative, but technicians like John Whorf and Robert Strong Woodward, the Robert A. Tafts of art, kept right on pleasing the public with the kind of landscapes which recall vacations in the country. There were brief 57th Street appearances by Philip Evergood, George Biddle and other reporters of suffering and war, who did their best to give art a message...