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...classes taught by Sculptor Chaim Gross (who discovered the Alliance the day after he left Ellis Island), Etchers William Auerbach-Levy, Painter Abbo Ostrowsky. The alumni of these classes include Sculptor Jacob Epstein, Painters Raphael and Isaac Soyer, Peter Blume, Philip Evergood...
Among those obliging him (with one or more examples) were top-rank painters Kuniyoshi, Benton, Marsh, Gropper, Grosz, Evergood, Curry; cartoonists Thurber, Steinberg, R. Taylor. (Amiably disobliging was twice-married oldtimer Maurice Sterne, who wrote: "Why not have an exhibition to include artists' wives? . . . Some pretty good painters have been married three or four times; these could be numbered . . . and would be an interesting study in retrogression...
...supplied a dozen artists in residence, with an average $1,500 for their keep, to colleges which it prefers to be smallish, inland. The lot which Carnegie doled out this year includes: one slightly shopworn illustrator, John Held Jr., to the University of Georgia; one up-&-coming muralist, Philip Evergood, to Kalamazoo College. A crack portraitist, Robert Philipp, goes to the University of Illinois on a $4,000 Rotating Professorship succeeding Dale Nichols (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939). The Foundation turned down Pennsylvania State College when they asked for a grant to keep Henry Varnum Poor around after he had finished...
...Sometimes they were a social-conscious emetic like Philip Evergood's painting of a walkathon in which it was hard to tell the epicene men from the epicene women staggering in various stages of rawly colored collapse...
...Artist Evergood's sensations are never any prettier than what he observes, and what he observes in Manhattan is apparently seldom pretty. When he draws a nude model he shows that her feet are dirty and her face is a lamentable part of her body. When he paints down-&-outers in a hobo "jungle" he distorts them to get an effect equivalent to the ugliness he feels. In last week's show of 22 paintings were several in Evergood's vein of wild, clownish humor. Sunday in Astoria and Recreation, big canvasses composed in bright, crude colors...