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DESCRIPTION: ARTIST OR SUBJECT: Tom EVERHART TITLE: BORA BORA BOOGIE DOWN SIGNATURE: Yes - Hand Signed MEDIUM: Lithograph DIMENSIONS: 22.5? x 30? ART STATE: Unframed EDITION: Numbered from an edition of 500 PAPER TYPE: deckle-Edge paper BIOGRAPHY: Tom Everhart (born May 21 1952 in Washington D.C.) is an American artist. Early life and education Everhart began his undergraduate studies at the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1970. In 1972 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 1974 where he completed his graduate work in 1976 followed by postgraduate studies at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. Career Everhart taught Life Drawing and Painting briefly from 1979 to 1980 at Antioch College. In 1980 he 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 in his studio which eliminated the perimeter lines of the cartoon box and left only the marks of the cartoonist. Schulz's painterly pen-strokes - now larger than life - were translated into painterly brush-strokes: they were now in a language that overwhelmingly connected to Everhart's own form of expression and communication. Completely impressed with Schulz's line he was able to reproduce the line art almost exactly. This in turn impressed Schulz at their meeting. It was at this time that Everhart affirmed his obsession with Schulz's line art style and began their ongoing relationship of friendship and line style education. A few years later while still painting full-time on his previous body of work in his studio Everhart began drawing special projects for Schulz and United Media both in New York City and Tokyo. These authentic Schulz-style drawings included covers and interiors of magazines art for the White House and the majority of the MetLife campaign. When Everhart was not painting he was now considered to be the only fine artist authorized and educated by Schulz to draw the actual Schulz line. The paintings using Schulz's comic strip Peanuts as subject matter began and replaced the skeleton and nature related paintings in 1988. The inspiration came to Everhart in Johns Hopkins Hospital where he was undergoing several operations for stage 4 colon / liver cancer in the summer of 1988. Everhart recalls lying in a hospital bed surrounded by enough flowers to open a florist shop piles of art books and a stack of Peanuts comic strips sent to him by Schulz. The light streaming in from the window almost projected the new images of his future Schulz inspired paintings on the wall. All the images in Everhart's work are in some respect derived from Schulz's Peanuts comic strip. In January 1990 Everhart's Schulz-related work went on to show at The Louvre in Paris and subsequently in Los Angeles at the L.A. County Museum of Natural History Montreal at the Museum of Fine Arts Tokyo Japan at the Suntory Museum of Art Osaka Rome Venice Milan Minneapolis Baltimore New York City Houston Chicago Las Vegas and in Santa Rosa California at the Charles M. Schulz Museum. In 1991 Schulz and United Media drafted a legal agreement to allow Everhart to use subject matter from Schulz's Peanuts strip in his art for "the term of his life". <