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Horace Clifford Westermann

(American, 1922–1981)

Horace Clifford Westermann

Untitled (Nude with Radio and Factory) , 1970

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Horace Clifford Westermann

The Human Fly, 1971

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Horace Clifford Westermann

The Human Fly, 1971

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Horace Clifford Westermann

Untitled (Mountain Home) , 1970

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Horace Clifford Westermann

A Mountain Home , 1970

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Biography

Timeline

1922: Born in Los Angeles, CA
1941: Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
1947 - 1950: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1981: Died in Danbury, CT

Exhibitions

2012: Automaton, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (group)
2009: Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H. C. Westermann Study Collection, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2006 - 2008: Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H. C. Westermann, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI. Travelled to the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. (solo)
2005: Woman, “the sweetest flower”, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
H. C. Westermann, Woman “the sweetest flower”, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (solo)
2002: H. C. Westermann: The Complete Lithographs, 1968-1972, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
2001 - 2003: H.C. Westermann, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Travelled to Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Smithosonian Institution; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Menil Collection, Houston. Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue raisone. (solo)
2001: Eye Infection: Robert Crumb, Mike Kelley, Jim Nutt, Peter Saul, H.C. Westermann, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, curated by Christiaan Braun, Exhibition Catalogue by Christiaan Braun, essay by Robert Storr.
2000: See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann, curated by Dennis Adrian and Richard A. Born, The David and Alfred Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, IL. Traveled to The University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Laguna Art Museum, CA and the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston. (solo)
H.C. Westermann Death Ship: Important Sculptures, Drawings, Prints, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (solo)
Horsetales: American Images and Icons 1800 – 2000, Curated by Ezra Shales and Susan H.Edwards, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, Catalogue.
1998: H. C. Westermann: The Connecticut Ballroom and Related Works, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (solo)
1996: Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1994: Drawings by Bruce Nauman & H. C. Westermann, Lawrence Markey, New York
1988: H. C. Westermann: Sculpture and Drawing, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, Catalogue (solo)
1980 - 1981: Who Chicago?, Camden Arts Center, London. Traveled to Geolfrith Gallery, Sunderland Arts Center; Eye Center, Glasgow; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Ulster Museum, Belfast, (catalogue).
1978 - 1979: H. C. Westermann, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Catalogue: text by Barbara Haskell (solo)
1974: H. C. Westermann, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1973: Wood-Works: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture in Wood, Darthmouth College, Hanover, NH. Traveled to Addison Gallery, Phillips Andover Academy, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (catalogue).
1972: 10 Independents: An Artist Initiated Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Catalogue: introduction by Dore Ashton.
1968: Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, New York, Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue: text by William S. Rubin.
H. C. Westermann, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. Expanded version traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Catalogue: text by Max Kozloff. (solo)
1967: American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Catalogue.
1962: H. C. Westermann, Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1958: H.C. Westermann: Recent Work, Catalogue with text by Dennis Adrian, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago (solo)
1956: Sculpture by H. C. Westermann and Paintings by Ivan Mischo, 414 Art

Public Collections

: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
: University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ
: Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
: Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
: Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Literature

2001: Abrams, H.C. Westermann, Dennis Adrian & Michael Rooks
Abrams, H.C. Westermann; Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonne of Objects, Lynne Warren & Michael Rooks
University of Chicago, See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann, Dennis Adrian
1997: H.C. Westermann – West, David King
1988: Timken Publishers, Letters from H.C. Westermann, Bill Barrette

Horace Clifford Westermann

(American, 1922–1981)

Horace Clifford Westermann

Horace Clifford Westermann

Horace Clifford Westermann

Horace Clifford Westermann

Horace Clifford Westermann

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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