The Indestructibles

Arts of the Americas

1946

Philip Evergood
American, 1901–1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Philip Evergood
Title: The Indestructibles
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1946
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100.3 × 80 cm (39 1/2 × 31 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Collection of Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller American Social Commentary Art, 1930-1970
Reference Number: 2000.519

Jo Gibbs, “Philip Evergood Looks Across Twenty Years,” Art Digest 20, 14 (April 15, 1946), 9, 30 (ill.).
Kendall Taylor, Philip Evergood: Never Separate from the Heart, exh. cat. (Center Gallery Publication/Bucknell University Press, 1987), 156, ill. n.p.
Frances K. Pohl, In the Eye of the Storm: An Art of Conscience, 1930–1970. Selections from the Collection of Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller, exh. cat. (Pomegranate, 1995), 8–9.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 77. 158.

New York, ACA Gallery, 20 Years of Evergood, Apr. 1946, pp. 20, 73 (ill.).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, 1946, Oct. 10–Dec. 8, 1946, cat. 65, pl. 78.
New York, Forum Gallery, Radical Views: George Grosz, Philip Evergood, Jan. 17–Feb. 21, 1998, pp. 18–19, 31–32.

Dr. Marvin Linick, New York, by 1946 [see Pittsburgh 1946 exh. cat]. Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller, by 1986 [see Bucknell 1986 exh. cat.]; given by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.

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