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Horace Westermann

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Horace Clifford Westermann (1922 - 1981) was active/lived in Connecticut, California.  Horace Westermann is known for Wooden sculpture-mod droll imagery and found object.

H. C. Westermann was born in Los Angeles, California in 1922, where he later attended Los Angeles City College in 1940. It is thought that his works and style provided the inspiration for movements such as the West Coast Funk artists and the Chicago Imagists, but he remained outside their involvement.

By the time H.C. was thirty years old, he had served in the U.S. Marine Corps (1942-1946), worked as an acrobat and toured the Orient (1946-1947), studied commercial art (1947-1952), studied painting at The School of Art Institute of Chicago, and was a veteran of World War Two and the Korean War.

His career as an artist spans more than twenty years, and features sculptures, prints, paintings, and illustrated letters. He used various materials such as metal, wood, paint, and many others; all incorporating a passionate devotion to craftsmanship and a sharp sense of irony. His works were often autobiographical and extremely funny. Concepts for his works came from personal an   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1945 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  63
Magazine References:  8

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8 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Horace Westermann
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Westermann's Way November 2002 Duncan, Michael Yes
Smithsonian Westermannia May 2002 Corday-Taylor, Alina Yes
Art & Antiques H.C. Westermann: Turmoil vs Humor May 2002 May, Stephen Yes
ARTFORUM Obscured Visions March 2002 Storr, Robert Yes
ARTFORUM Openings October 2001 Joselit, David Yes
ARTFORUM Preview May 2001 Editors Yes
Art in America Where the Wild Things Were May 1997 Vine, Richard Yes
Architectural Digest Rancho Ruscha August 1994 Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter Yes
63 Book References for Horace Westermann
Year Author Title Pages Color
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Adrain, Dennis See America First The Prints of HC Westermann 200 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Ruzicka, Joseph Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years Of Printmaking 220 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1993 Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection 414 Yes
1992 Hough, Katherine Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 Yes
1990 Livingstone, Marco Pop Art A Continuing History 271 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Berggruen, John John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)		 97 Yes
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1988 Westermann, H /Bill Barrette Letters from H C Westermann 189 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Cummings, Paul 20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art 176 Yes
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 290 Yes
1984 Chicago, Museum Contemporary Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection 164 Yes
1984 Cummings, Paul Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1983 Knipe, Tony (editor) Drawing in Air Sculptors' Drawing 1882-1982
(Exhibition catalog)		 187 Yes
1983 Museum of Contemporary Art The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 293 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1981 Cummings, Paul Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art 64 No
1981 Danoff, Michael/C K Carr The Image in American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 102 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1980 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1978 Kirkpatrick, D/Charles Lewis Chicago, The City and Its Artists 1945-1978
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Whitney Museum 1977 Biennial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1976 Hunter, Sam (others) Critical Perspectives in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1974 Busch, Julia A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s 236 Yes
1974 Halstead, Whitney Made in Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 79 Yes
1974 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974
(Exhibition catalog)		 136 No
1973 Solomon, Elke M American Drawings 1963-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1972 Kahmen, Volker Eroticism in Contemporary Art 282 Yes
1972 Schulze, Franz Fantastic Images Chicago Art since 1945 223 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1969 Doty, Robert Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1968 Kozloff, Max H.C. Westermann
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1968 Kozloff, Max H C Westermann
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1968 Rubin, William S Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (Museum of Modern Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 No
1968 San Francisco Museum of Art Untitled, 1968 60 No
1968 Weller, Allen S The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art 185 No
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1966 Lippard, Lucy R Pop Art 216 Yes
1961 Seitz, William C The Art of Assemblage
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
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