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Girl in Brocade Chemise (Mrs. Joseph James Akston, Palm Beach, FL) 1964 20th Century 24 1/4 in. x 19 1/4 in. (61.6 cm x 48.9 cm) Philip Evergood (New York, 1901 - 1973) Object Type: Drawing Medium and Support: ink, chalk and wash on paper Credit Line: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Purchased with a gift from Virginia Bailey. 1986.027 Accession Number: 1986.027 Comments: Evergood was an idealist, an imaginative, even fanciful painter, who became charged with the social issues of his times and by the political problems of the great depression.  His instinctive sympathies for the downtrodden, with the working man, Negro rights, the Loyalist cause in Spain, led him to the Left and he became a social realist painter.  Such subjects were not exclusive to his earlier years in the 30s.  In 1962, for example, he painted Abandoned Doll, which is a tribute to Marilyn Monroe. Portrait drawing is not altogether different from social realist painting.  It is a more intimate introduction to the artist's work, and may tend to catch the artist in a more personal and less public posture. Lady in Brocade Chemise is a vigorous image of an intense young woman, which focuses on her head, posture, wrists and hands, emerging from a dark but diaphonous, patterned garment.  The face is both a portrait and an "Evergood" in that it resembles an inquiring female face, not unlike those who appear in the foreground of Mine Disaster and American Tragedy, both from the 30s. Notably, the drawing was included in the exhibition "A Decade of American Drawings, 1955-1965" at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1965).  It was reproduced in Baur's lengthy monograph on the artist - one of only a handful of such drawings featured.

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