Tom Everhart

Tom Everhart (b.1952) is in American artist and the only person with a “Term of Life” agreement from Charles M. Schulz (creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip) to use Schulz’s imagery as visual object matter in his paintings. Everhart attended Yale school of Art and Architecture. In 1980, he was introduced to Schulz and began working on freelance projects for him. Throughout their relationship, he learned Schulz’s process and visual strategies that would develop into his paintings over the last 32 years. Everhart’s work has been exhibited in the Louvre in Paris, the LA County Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo as well as in Osaka, Rome, Venice, Milan, Minneapolis, Baltimore, New York, Houston, Chicago, Las Vegas, and in Santa Rosa, CA at the Charles M. Schulz Museum. Everhart lives and works in Venice Beach, CA and French Polynesia, two places that inspire his creativity.