Philip Evergood

American, 1901 - 1973

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About two dozen men, women, children, and babies, most with dark brown skin, stand, walk, or play hockey in a narrow street between rowhouses in this vertical painting. Games are drawn on the street in white chalk along most of its length. The person closest to us is a young man wearing a canary-yellow, double-breasted coat, who stands to our left of center at the bottom of the painting. His eyes are closed, and he holds a white cane in one hand. Behind him, a woman and the baby in her arms both have round lollipops. Next to them to our left, a boy wearing an orange sweater, brown pants, and a red crown stands facing away from us. Others play hockey on roller skates in the street. They wear shirts and pants in cranberry red, royal and sky blue, brown, green, golden yellow, and fluorescent orange. Their clothing and some facial features are outlined with black. To our left, a willowy woman with white-colored skin and a cloud of pale blond hair turns around to look at the street as she steps up onto the stairs in front of one house. Her tight, knee-length, sleeveless dress and pumps match the ash-white of her skin. Four children, one in a wheelchair, and one man sit and stand beyond her stoop and around the next one. Others look out the windows or walk along the sidewalks. A pair of white-uniformed paramedics carry a person on a stretcher to an ambulance farther along the street, to our right. The buildings meet at a point at about ten o’clock near the center of the composition. Many buildings on the right side of the street have fire escapes zigzagging down their facades. Spiky black antennas crowd the rooflines like lace against a sky streaked with topaz blue and parchment white. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower right corner, “Philip Evergood 50.”  
Philip Evergood, Sunny Side of the Street, 1950, egg-oil varnish emulsion with marble dust and glass on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Anna E. Clark Fund), 2015.19.76

Sunny Side of the Street

Philip Evergood · 1950 · egg-oil varnish emulsion with marble dust and glass on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.76

Philip Evergood, Suffering Woman, 1965, etching and engraving in black on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.1658

Suffering Woman

Philip Evergood · 1965 · etching and engraving in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2008.115.1658

Philip Evergood, A Self-Portrait with Good Right Hand, 1963, graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of George Biddle), 2015.19.2540

A Self-Portrait with Good Right Hand

Philip Evergood · 1963 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2540

Philip Evergood, Me and My Dog, Feather, 1961, lithograph in black on wove paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.223

Me and My Dog, Feather

Philip Evergood · 1961 · lithograph in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2002.98.223

Philip Evergood, Aftermath of War, 1945, etching and drypoint, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.1660

Aftermath of War

Philip Evergood · 1945 · etching and drypoint ·  Accession ID  2008.115.1660

Philip Evergood, Still Life, c. 1944, lithograph, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.1657

Still Life

Philip Evergood · c. 1944 · lithograph ·  Accession ID  2008.115.1657

Philip Evergood, City Lights II, 1941, lithograph, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.1659

City Lights II

Philip Evergood · 1941 · lithograph ·  Accession ID  2008.115.1659

Philip Evergood, City Lights II, 1940-1941, lithograph in black on wove paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.101

City Lights II

Philip Evergood · 1940-1941 · lithograph in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2002.98.101

Philip Evergood, Portrait of a Miner, 1938, etching in black on wove paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.102

Portrait of a Miner

Philip Evergood · 1938 · etching in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2002.98.102

Philip Evergood, What Price Glory?, 1937, lithograph, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.1655

What Price Glory?

Philip Evergood · 1937 · lithograph ·  Accession ID  2008.115.1655

Bibliography

1966

  • Lippard, Lucy R. The Graphic Work of Philip Evergood: Selected Drawings and Complete Prints. New York, 1966.