Tom Everhart "Peanuts" Art

The monumental paintings of Tom Everhart have always straddled the line between the familiar and a new way of seeing. As the only artist licensed to use the Peanuts™ characters in his art, Everhart utilizes the instantly recognizable image of Snoopy to communicate a new sensibility – one that is at once accessible and exotic. “I want my work to be very inviting,” he explains. “I want people to see the attraction in it, and be lured in.” A master colorist, Everhart understands that one of the lures into his art is the attention to color and line. The element that originally brought Everhart to Schulz was a fascination with the “brilliant architecture of Schulz’s black ink line” and its potential for monumental shifts in tone and scale. Everhart’s love of Schulz's line – and his remarkable ability to capture it with his own vivid interpretation – impressed Schulz and launched a friendship that continued until Schulz’s death in 2000. “I had this collaboration with Charles Schulz,” Tom says, “and since his death that collaboration has ended. I want to keep the work growing, because keeping the work growing means that it’s alive.” Everhart’s paintings have been exhibited in Museums and fine art galleries worldwide, including the Louvre (Paris, France), Museu da Cidade (Lisbon, Portugal), Suntory Museum (Osaka, Japan), and the Charles M. Schulz Museum (Santa Rosa, CA).