 Tom Everhart became involved
with PEANUTS(tm) in 1980, when he was asked to render some drawings of the
characters for a commercial project. A successful painter with no background in
cartooning, Everhart prepared for the task by projecting Schulz's comic strips
onto a 25-foot wall of his studio for closer examination. He was stunned to
discover that, blown up larger than life, Schulz’s pen strokes translated
into painterly brush strokes that closely connected to his own form of
expression. Tom Everhart's interpretations use visual
'tools' that capture the spirit of Post-Impressionist and Expressionist artists
like Van Gogh, Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Kandinsky, and Munch. The
SNOOPY-as-art-history approach shows up in various ways in Everharts
work. For instance, Everhart has said that his series of paintings of
SNOOPY's doghouse are done much like Monet would do his cathedrals.
Everhart's paintings have been exhibited at museums all over the world,
including the Louvre in Paris and in museums in Los Angeles, Rome, Venice,
Tokyo and New York City.
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