painter and cartoonist, was born in Carlton, Melbourne, on 10 January 1871. Enrolled as Mr M.M. Blashki, he studied Design at the National Gallery of Victoria [NGV] Schools in 1893 and Painting in 1895. He exhibited with the [Royal] Art Society of NSW in 1894. In 1896 he competed for the NGV Travelling Scholarship as 'Myer Blashki’ (his real name). He contributed cartoons to the radical Melbourne paper Champion (published 1896-97), e.g. Shelter 14 November 1896, Wanted – A Buyer! (Melbourne 'for sale’ as owner 'gone west’ [to Kalgoorlie]) 21 November 1896 (cover), and A-RESTING (policeman complaining about no longer being able to move people on) 12 December 1896 (cover, apparently signed 'MB’). The University of Sydney’s then Power Research Library had copies of the first two in slide form.
Blashki lived in Sydney in 1896-98. His drawings 'On board the Japanese training ship Kongo’ appeared in Town and Country Journal on 25 June 1898 (33) and he spent the next 40 years overseas in England, Europe and the USA, mainly the last where his son Philip Evergood (d.1973) became a leading American social-realist painter. As 'Miles Evergood’, Blashki returned to Australia in 1931. He exhibited his paintings at Melbourne and Sydney in 1933. He died in Melbourne on 3 January 1939.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
