Oral history interview with Philip Evergood
name: label: Interviewee
content: Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973
label: Interviewer
content: Selvig, Forrest
label: Names
content: Baron, Herman, 1892-1961
label: Names
content: Hirshhorn, Joseph H.
label: Names
content: Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933
label: Names
content: Tonks, Henry, 1862-1937
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973
label: Interviewer
content: Selvig, Forrest
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Philip Evergood (1901-1973) was a painter from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 51 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968 Dec. 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.evergo68
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Philip Evergood conducted 1968 Dec. 3, by Forrest Selvig, for the Archives of American Art, in the artist's home, in Bridgewater, Conn.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Evergood speaks of his childhood and his parents; his education at the Slade School with Henry Tonks and at the Art Students League with George Luks and William Von Schlegell; life in Paris in the 1920s at the Academie Julian; his marriage; life in New York City in the 1930s; the Depression and the WPA; and his exhibitions at the Dudensing, ACA, and other galleries and museums. Evergood comments on his paintings, "The Dance Marathon," "Lily and the Sparrows," and others. He discusses his philosophy of art, the meaning of "social painting," and artists of the 1930s as compared with the artists of the 1960s. He recalls Joseph Hirshhorn, Herman Baron, Stuart Davis, Reginald Marsh, Peter Blume, and others. Also present during the interview is Evergood's wife, Julia.