Evelyn Eastwood 1907-2001 Paintings 

Evelyn Palme Eastwood

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Evelyn Palme Eastwood was born Evelyn Palme in New Bedford, Massachusetts on August 27, 1907, the sixth daughter and seventh child of Joseph Palme and Julia Janak Palme.

  

Evi studied art under Harry Neyland, a Paris-trained Post-Impressionist, and a director of the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, which she attended.  She also studied in Berkeley at the California School of Arts and Crafts, and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.  Her then future husband, Thomas Eastwood, also studied at Swain and Pratt at the same time.

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Tom and Evi married and lived and worked together in New York from 1929 to 1944.  There they were both influenced by Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in NY.  Tom Eastwood was a friend of Jackson Pollack.  In Evi's own words:

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Lived in New York City from 1929 to 1944, a time of change and ferment – the Great Depression, and the years before and during World War II – to which the artists naturally reacted. Refugee artists from the Bauhaus in Germany had an impact, as did the Mexican school, first shown at the newly-organized Museum of Modern Art.  The Whitney Museum, too, was started at that time, giving U.S. artists prominence. Being part of that scene was an education in art, politics and life in general.

 

In 1945 Evi and Tom moved to Hyannis, Massachusetts.  After Tom died in 1957, Evi moved to the first floor of the octagonal Baxter house on South Street. There she continued to paint almost up until her death at the age of 93 on March 16, 2001.

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She was a member of the Cape Cod Society of Craftsmen and Cape Cod Art Association, a charter member Cape Museum of Fine Arts, and a Fellow in the International Association for Philosophical Enquiry

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Evi's paintings are in many private collections, and she had drawings published in the New Yorker magazine during the 1930's and 1940's. She also created macrame artifacts.

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