Tom everhart artist biography

Tom Everhart was born on May 21, in Washington, D.C. He began his under graduate studies at the Yale University of Art and Architecture in In he participated in an independent study program under Earl Hoffman at St.

Mary’s College. He returned to the Yale School of Art and Architecture in where he completed his graduate work in , followed by post-graduate studies at the Musee de l’Orangerie, in Paris. He taught Life Drawing and Painting, briefly from to , at Antioch College.

In , Tom Everhart was introduced to cartoonist Charles M.

Schulz at Schulz’s studios in Santa Rosa, California. A few weeks prior to their meeting, Everhart, having absolutely no education in cartooning, found himself involved in a freelance project that required him to draw and present Peanuts renderings to Schulz’s studios.

Preparing as he would the drawings and studies for his large-scale skeleton / nature related paintings; he blew up some of the cartoonist’s strips on a twenty-five foot wall