Peter Evershed, British/New York/ New Mexico, w/c and graphite, Manhattan Skyline, SLR and dated 1950, titled lower left, 10 1/2 x 13 3/4”, 16 x 19” matted.Peter Evershed was born on 5 February 1925. He spent almost all of the 1950s in America,primarily in New York where he associated with numerous artistic, jazz and literary personalities.In the early 1950s he was attached to a New York Gallery and met Dorothy Brett there when she washolding an exhibition. He later visited her in Taos, New Mexico where he met and painted FriedaLawrence, the widow of writer, D.H. Lawrence. Evershed also met Frieda at Aldous Huxley's home inCalifornia. Other literary figures painted by Evershed have included Dylan Thomas and W.H.Auden.Evershed has lived most of his life in England and resided for a time in Derby. His portraits andlandscape scenes have been acquired by galleries and libraries world-wide, including the Universityof Texas and the National Gallery of Wales.

16 x 19 in

10 lb