Forgotten Australian Impressionist artist is rediscovered in a new biography: 'Miles Evergood: No End of Passion' by Gael Hammer

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Suddenly I felt the tremor that a new work of art, the artistic expression of a new individuality, causes in one.

Henri Pene du Bois

_{Art critic for New York American, 1902}

There is a quality of heavy velvet in his work that can almost be felt with the hand, and signs of that fertile intimacy with life that will result in some achievement

Unknown writer

_{New York "Town Topics", April 2, 1902}

Without pictorial rhetoric he has expressed a Virgilian calm in the clumps of trees, the unobtrusive vegetation and the immemorial rocks he chooses to depict...

James Huneker

_{Art critic for "The Sun " New York , December 10, 1907}

Mr Evergood expresses his own feeling, particularly with regard to colour

Unnamed art critic

_{Brisbane daily paper, February 1932}

There is, for example, a richness of tone in Mr Evergood's work that is rare in Australian landscape painting...

Gavin Long

_{Art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, writing here for "Art in Australia", April 15th, 1933 p.19}

Miles Evergood was an Impressionist in the very real sense of the term...

George Bell

_{Art critic in "The Sun" Melbourne, May 6th, 1940}

How could we get to see the adult works of the students of McCubbin and Hall all together? That would be a fascinating significant exhibition. Many of them had professional success. Some remained overseas. How could we see their works

All of Evergood’s NGV school mates together?

_{W. A. B. McK, art lover}