Detritus
1999
Connor Everts (American, 1926-2016)
Not on View

In his highly accomplished collages, the Southern California artist Connor Everts combines language and representation of everyday objects with actual everyday objects on a divided picture plane. These collages recall the dialogue between two and three dimensions that lies at the heart of modernism. As in the works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the patriarchs of papier-collé, Everts’s collages are filled with personal references. The artist, for example, was an extremely talented baseball player, and his father played semiprofessionally. Images of baseballs pepper the works along with representations of playing cards, which refer to his childhood memories of playing pinochle with his mother. As a believer in gestalt theory—the notion that disparate forms produce a unique but distinct whole—Everts found collage to be a natural fit: it simultaneously addresses the intractable formal problems of the twentieth century while presenting the exceedingly personal methods of the mind.

Details

  • Artist Name: Connor Everts (American, 1926-2016)
  • Title: Detritus
  • Date: 1999
  • Medium: Acrylic, postage stamps and printed paper on paper
  • Dimensions: 30-1/8 x 22-3/8 in. (76.5 x 56.8 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Robin C. Park and D. Robert Park
  • Accession Number: P.2003.03.1
  • Copyright: © 2023 Connor Everts

Object Information

Robin C. Park and D. Robert Park, gift 2003 to;
Norton Simon Museum.

Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum (2002-2008)

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2009-04-17 to 2009-08-31

Lost but Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920-2002

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2004-11-05 to 2005-03-28

Additional Artwork by Artist

Contextual Shifts Connor Everts 2004
Flotsam Connor Everts 1999
Studies in Desperation: Adjustment Alone As Always Connor Everts 1963

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