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An Alchemy of Ideas: Works from the Mickey Cartin Collection
H.C. WESTERMANN (1922-1981)
Untitled ("Unusual Physician")
Details
H.C. WESTERMANN (1922-1981)
Untitled ("Unusual Physician")
stamped with the artist's name 'HORACE CLIFFORD WESTERMANN' (on a metal dog tag affixed to the left side); stamped with the date '1957' (on the right side)
pine, metal, glass, printed paper collage and paint
8 ½ x 12 x 10 in. (21.6 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1957.
Untitled ("Unusual Physician")
stamped with the artist's name 'HORACE CLIFFORD WESTERMANN' (on a metal dog tag affixed to the left side); stamped with the date '1957' (on the right side)
pine, metal, glass, printed paper collage and paint
8 ½ x 12 x 10 in. (21.6 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1957.
Provenance
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
Betty Asher, Beverly Hills
Her sale; Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 1995, lot 62
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Betty Asher, Beverly Hills
Her sale; Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 1995, lot 62
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
H.C. Westermann: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonné of Objects, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2001, pp. 230-231, no. 32 (illustrated).
S. Holmes, ed., Festschrift: Selections from a Collection, Hartford, 2008, p. 173, pl. 21 (illustrated).
P. Kennicott, "They were once outsiders, but now are embraced as American artists," The Washington Post, 2018, digital, n.p.
S. Delson, "Self-Taught Outsiders Looking In," The Wall Street Journal, 2018, digital, n.p.
Seen in the Mirror: Things from the Cartin Collection, exh. cat., David Zwirner, New York, 2021, p. 160 (illustrated).
S. Holmes, ed., Festschrift: Selections from a Collection, Hartford, 2008, p. 173, pl. 21 (illustrated).
P. Kennicott, "They were once outsiders, but now are embraced as American artists," The Washington Post, 2018, digital, n.p.
S. Delson, "Self-Taught Outsiders Looking In," The Wall Street Journal, 2018, digital, n.p.
Seen in the Mirror: Things from the Cartin Collection, exh. cat., David Zwirner, New York, 2021, p. 160 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Chicago, 414 Art Workshop Gallery, H. C. Westermann and Thomas Kapsalis: Sculpture, December 1957.
Los Angeles, Dwan Gallery, Boxes, February 1964, n.p., no. 12 (illustrated).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, H.C. Westermann, November 1968-March 1969, p. 16, no. 8 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Seattle Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, H.C. Westermann, May 1978-May 1979, p. 39 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Made in Chicago, October 1974-March 1975, p. 25, no. 3.
Windsor, Connecticut, The Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School, In Pursuit of the Invisible: Selections from the Collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin, May-June 1996, p. 73 (illustrated).
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Houston, The Menil Collection, H. C. Westermann, June 2001-January 2003.
Honolulu, The Contemporary Museum; New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Stanford University, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann, August 2006-March 2008, pp. 65-67 (illustrated and detail illustrated).
New York, Venus Over Manhattan, H.C. Westermann: See America First, November-December 2015.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art; Atlanta, High Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, January 2018-March 2019.
Los Angeles, Dwan Gallery, Boxes, February 1964, n.p., no. 12 (illustrated).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, H.C. Westermann, November 1968-March 1969, p. 16, no. 8 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Seattle Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, H.C. Westermann, May 1978-May 1979, p. 39 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Made in Chicago, October 1974-March 1975, p. 25, no. 3.
Windsor, Connecticut, The Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School, In Pursuit of the Invisible: Selections from the Collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin, May-June 1996, p. 73 (illustrated).
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Houston, The Menil Collection, H. C. Westermann, June 2001-January 2003.
Honolulu, The Contemporary Museum; New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Stanford University, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann, August 2006-March 2008, pp. 65-67 (illustrated and detail illustrated).
New York, Venus Over Manhattan, H.C. Westermann: See America First, November-December 2015.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art; Atlanta, High Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, January 2018-March 2019.
Presentado por
Michael Baptist
Vice President, Specialist, Co-Head of Day Sale