Philip Evergood, a social realist painter, captured the grit and vitality of American life with a unique blend of reality and fantasy, often with a cartoonish quality.
Philip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood (born Howard Blashki; 1901–1973) was an American social realist painter, etcher, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator, and writer. He was particularly active during the Depression and World War II era. == Life == Philip Evergood was born in New York City in 1901. His mother was English and his father, Miles Evergood, was an Australian artist of Polish Jewish descent who, in 1915, changed the family's name from Blashki to Evergood. Philip E…
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