The Quarantined Citadel

Details

PHILIP HOWARD EVERGOOD (1901-1973)
Evergood, P.H.
The Quarantined Citadel
signed 'Philip Evergood' (lower right)
oil on canvas
48 x 39 ¼ in. (121.9 x 99.7 cm.)
Painted in 1945.

Provenance

ACA Galleries, New York.
Dr. L. Burness, New York.
Mrs. Robert Long.
Private collection, New York.
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1989.

Literature

Carnegie Magazine, vol. 19, no. 5, 1945, p. 143, illustrated.
"Art: Prizewinners,"Time, October 22, 1945.
R.M. Coates, The New Yorker, April 16, 1960, p. 143.
J.I.H. Baur, Philip Evergood, New York, 1975, p. 47, pl. 13, illustrated.
R. Henkes, Themes in American Painting: A Reference Work to Common Styles and Genres, Jefferson, North Carolina, 1993, p. 190.
R. Henkes, World War II in American Art, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2001, p. 81.
"American Modernism at Ringling Museum," Pelican Press, June 10, 2004, p. 2b, illustrated.

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, 1945.
New York, ACA Gallery, Evergood: 20 Years, April 1946, pp. 32, 69, 95, illustrated.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Evergood Retrospective, 1960, pp. 46, 75, illustrated.
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Bucknell University, The Center Gallery, Philip Evergood Retrospective, September 5-October 19, 1986.
Sid Deutsch Gallery, A Selection of Twentieth-Century American Art, 1989.
Sarasota, Florida, Ringling School of Art and Design, Selby Gallery, Sarasotans Collect, March 16-April 7, 2001.
Sarasota, Florida, Ringling School of Art and Design, Selby Gallery, March 2003.
Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art; Sarasota, Florida, Ringling Museum of Art; Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, American Modernism, November 19, 2003-November 14, 2004, pp. 52-53, 69, no. 22, illustrated.
Tampa, Florida, Tampa Museum of Art, American Modernism, January 8-February 27, 2011.

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Lot Essay

The present work is a mordant commentary on the brutality of war and human suffering in the 20th century. "The Quarantined Citadel is an attack on war through the vehicle of Evergood's best social satire. The artist has banished all the warmonger generals to an island, equipped them with maps, toy soldiers and Coney Island amusement park airplanes, and lets them play out harmlessly their visions of conquest." (American Modernism, exhibition catalogue, Boca Raton, Florida, p. 52)

The present work received a Second Honorable Mention for the artist at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1945.

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