Charles Gray, California;
Gael Hammer, the artist's great niece, till 2015 (GH #43)
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Miles Evergood
Queensland Landscape, 1931 - 1932
RESERVED
oil on board
30.00 x 40.00
signed 'Evergood' l.l.; inscribed with title on reverse
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Possibly Miles Evergood Retrospective, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, and the Jewish Museum, Melbourne, 1988-9, no 33;
Miles Evergood, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 22 February - 28 March, 2014, no. 41;
Miles Evergood: The Australian Years, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 4 - 27 June, 2015, no. 4
Literature & references:
Gael Hammer, Miles Evergood: No End of Passion, 2013, illus. p 43.
Note:
Born in 1871 in Carlton, Myer Blashki, eleventh child of Hannah and Phillip Blashki, (he was a noted silversmith), grew up in a traditional Jewish migrant family in a rapidly expanding Melbourne. After studying at the National Gallery School, and exhibiting at the VAS in Melbourne and the RAS in Sydney, he made an unusual move. Whilst virtually all his contemporaries were gravitating to London and Paris in 1898, he moved to San Francisco, and then to New York where he lived and worked till 1930, when he returned to Australia. Initially he lived in Brisbane, then in Sydney, and finally settled in Melbourne where he and his wife Polly bought a cottage in Kalorama in 1938. He died unexpectedly in 1939.
Evergood exhibited his work with success in the USA and was well connected to the Melbourne scene in the 30s – his friends included Rupert Bunny, George Bell, James Quinn and John Longstaff, among others, all of whom he had met at art school in Melbourne in the 1890s. Castlemaine Gallery held a major retrospective exhibition in 1988.
Further works by the Artist
Dandenong Ranges
Miles Evergood
c. 1938
oil on board (Academy board from New York), 41.00 x 31.00
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