Philip Evergood

Mom's Cathedral
c. 1951

A surreal painting featuring a variety of characters and scenes: a woman in a blue jacket and red skirt in the foreground, a gaunt figure lying on the ground reaching towards a bucket, couples dancing in the background, a man hanging upside down from a lamppost, and a man in a top hat speaking to a bust on a pedestal. The Eiffel Tower is depicted on a book cover held by the woman in the foreground. The artwork is signed by the artist in the bottom right corner.

A surreal painting featuring a variety of characters and scenes: a woman in a blue jacket and red skirt in the foreground, a gaunt figure lying on the ground reaching towards a bucket, couples dancing in the background, a man hanging upside down from a lamppost, and a man in a top hat speaking to a bust on a pedestal. The Eiffel Tower is depicted on a book cover held by the woman in the foreground. The artwork is signed by the artist in the bottom right corner.

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Date
c. 1951

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas mounted on composition board

Dimensions
Overall: 35 7/8 × 45 7/8in. (91.1 × 116.5 cm)

Accession number
76.10

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of L. Arnold Weissberger in memory of his mother, Anna Weissberger

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Philip Evergood
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