The current Swann Galleries auction is dedicated to the Artists of the WPA.

Some became bums, some are dead, some are doing toothpaste ads. Some, like Philip Evergood, became successful representational artists. And some, escaping from the chunky nude moms and arm-and ...

There was absolutely no private patronage. —Philip Evergood, 1945 The crash of the stock market in 1929 initiated a chain of events that crippled the American art scene. As money from private patrons ...