Walker G. Everett (1904-1968)
Fade-away Golfer: Homage to Coles Phillips
American: c. 1960s
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
20.25 x 14 inches, painting
27.25 x 21.25 inches, framed
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Fade-Away Golfer: Homage to Coles Phillip
Painting by Walker G. Everett
Painting by Walker G. Everett
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Above: Painting framed and signature
A female golfer swings her club as a male companion looks on. Her pale blue headband and skirt blend into the sky. This work is part of series by Walker G. Everett in which he celebrated the works of selected great American illustration artists by employing their distinctive styles in a series of his own paintings. In this work, he pays homage to Coles Phillips, an American illustrator (1880-1927) best known for his "fade-away girl" figures, a clever compositional device in which portions of the figure blend into the background. Although Everett’s painting was made in the 1960s, the figures are dressed in the style of the 1920s, hearkening back to Phillips’s era.
Walker G. Everett was an American painter who worked in a figurative style, though he also painted landscapes. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in New York City. Two of his paintings are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Provenance: Phoenix Gallery, 939 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (their label verso).
References:
Platnick, Norm. “Coles Phillips and the Fade-Away Lady.” American Art Archives. http://www.americanartarchives.com/phillips,c.htm (20 April 2009).
“Walker Everett.” Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?ID=1472 (20 April 2009).