Drawings: A Developmental Survey of the Drawing of Connor Everts

Held at the Pasadena Art Museum, Drawings: A Developmental Survey of the Drawing of Connor Everts displayed 22 works by Connor Everts (1928–2016), including large-scale murals, drawings and oil paintings. The most prominent work on display, Thirst for Extinction (1960), spanned 10 by 20 feet and comprised multiple panels of large black-and-white drawings that depict a group of naked figures locked in a vicious struggle. Themes of aggression and conflict featured heavily in Everts’s other works on display, including the murals The Altar and Clinging, Clutching, Hanging. In The Altar, the figures do not fight each other but against the broken and discarded parts of metal machines, which Everts regarded as “a threat” to humanity.