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H.C. Westermann

1922 Born in Los Angeles, California 1981 Died in Danbury, Connecticut

Education

1954 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2001 Chicago Museum of Art, Chicago 2000 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York 1998 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York 1997 Richmond Art Centre, Richmond Madison Art Centre, Madison 1996 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York 1995 Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles 1994 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu 1991 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York CompassRose Gallery, Chicago 1989 Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York 1988 Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York 1987 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1984 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco 1982 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City Akron Art Institute, Akron 1981 Xavier Fourcade, Inc, New York Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks Arts Council of Great Britain, Serpentine Gallery, London 1979 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Des Moines Art Centre, Des Moines Seattle Art Museum, Seattle San Francisco , San Francisco Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York 1977 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston 1976 Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago 1975 Felicity Samuel Gallery, Chicago 1974 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York 1973 Gallery Neuendorf, Hamburg Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago 1972 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne 1971 University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago 1970 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York Galerie Thomas Borgmann, Cologne Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas 1968 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Morton Junior College, Cicero 1967 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago 1966 Kansas City of Art Institute, Kansas City 1965 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York 1964 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York 1963 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco 1962 Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles 1961 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York 1958 Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago 1956 Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford 1954 National College of Education, Wilmette

Selected Group Exhibitions

2000 Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco “American Bricolage,” Sperone Westwater, New York Texas Gallery, Houston 1999 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1998 Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle 1997 “A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York “Wood Not Wood, Work Not Work,” A/D Gallery, New York National Building Museum, Washington “Deep Storage,” Haus der Kunst, Munich “Recent Glass Sculpture: A Union of Ideas,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee “The Pop 60’s: Transatlantic Crossing,” Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon “Art as Work,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines “The Subverted Object,” Ubu Gallery, New York “An Exhibition Inspired by Paul Cummings: Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture,” Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York 1996 “Art in Chicago,” 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “The House Transformed,” Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York “Epitaphs,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York “Out of Toon,” George Adams Gallery, New York “The Gun: Icon of Twentieth-Century Art,” Ubu Gallery, New York “The Human Figure,” Gagosian Gallery, New York “Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York “Sculptors Who Paint,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines The Noyes Museum, Oceanville “Box,” Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York Richmond Art Center, Loomis Chaffe School, Windsor Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1995 “Group Exhibition,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York Knoedler Gallery, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1994 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lawrence Markey, New York “Truth Be Told: It’s All About Love,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York Ubu Gallery, New York Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport 1993 “Collage and Assemblage,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York “Works on Paper by Gallery Artists,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York Waddington Galleries, London 1992 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs Waddington Galleries, London Renee Fotouhi Fine Art East, East Hampton Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York 1991 “Spring Summer Exhibition, Part Two: Sculptors,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Royal Academy of the Arts, London 1990 “The Boat Show: Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages,” National Museum of American Art, Washington Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee “Drawings,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York “Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York 1989 “Broken Landscape, Discarded Object,” P.P.O.W., New York “Group Exhibition,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York “Around the House,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York “Painting and Sculpture,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York “Works on Paper,” Lennon, Weinberg, Inc, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art Revisited,” Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York National Building Museum, Washington 1988 Whitney Museum of American Art, Equitable Center, New York 1987 “Drawings,” Xavier Fourcade, Inc, New York University of Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley “Assemblage,” Kent Fine Art, Inc, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “In Memory of Xavier Fourcade: A Group Exhibition,” Xavier Fourcade, Inc, New York 1986 Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale “Reality Remade,” Kent Fine Art, Inc, New York Storm King Art Center, Mountainville Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles 1985 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris “An Inside Place,” The Noyes Art Museum, Oceanville “Heart and Soul: Bodily Encounters,” Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica 1984 “Return of the Narrative,” Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs “The Museum of Contemporary Art Selects: Painting and Sculptures from Chicago’s Best,” Marshall Field’s on State Street, Chicago “Selections from the Permanent Collection: Ten Years of Collecting,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “Alternative Spaces, A History in Chicago,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “Sculpture,” Xavier Fourcade, Inc, New York “American Sculpture,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles “Automobile and Culture,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles “Print Acquisitions, 1974-1984,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “The Sculptor as Craftsman,” The Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami “The Dilexi Years 1958-1970,” The Oakland Museum, Oakland “Contemporary American Wood Sculpture,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento 1983 “Drawing in Air,” Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre, Sunderland “Drawings,” Xavier Fourcade, Inc, New York “Living with Art Two: The Collection of Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch,” Miami University Art Museum, Oxford “Director’s Choice,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines “The Sculptor as Draftsman,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Rosa Esman Gallery, New York “The House That Art Built,” Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton 1982 “From Chicago,” Pace Gallery, New York “Selections from the Dennis Adrian Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “American Prints 1960-1980,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee “Sculpture,” Xavier Fourcade, Inc, New York “Works in Wood,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles “Sculpture,” Waddington Galleries, London “The 1982 Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition, Art on Paper…Since 1960,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro 1981 “The Morgan Collection,” Clara Engle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray “Crimes of Compassion,” The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk “Sculpture,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles “Sculpture,” Boston Athenaeum Gallery, Boston “Sculpture,” Xavier Fourcade, Inc, New York “Possibilities for Collectors #3,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines “American Drawings in Black and White,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn “Block Prints,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “The Image in American Painting and Sculpture,” Akron Art Museum, Akron “Woodworks I: New American Sculpture,” Dayton Art Institute, Dayton “New Sculpture and Watercolors,” Xavier Fourcade, New York “One Major New Work Each,” Xavier Fourcade, New York “Drawing Acquisitions,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Selections from the Nathan Emory Coffin Collection,” University of Houston, Lawndale Annex, Houston 1980 “Small Scale: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture,” Xavier Fourcade, Inc. New York Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Groups III,” Waddington, London “Selections from the Collection of George M. Irwin,” Krannert Art Museum, Urbana “American Painting of the 1960’s and 1970’s, The Real, the Ideal, the Fantastic: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Vice President Mondale’s Residence, Washington “American Sculpture: Gifts of Howard and Jean Lipman,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Tableau, An American Selection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Who Chicago?: An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists,” Camden Arts Centre, London 1979 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Twentieth Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Enclosure and Concealment,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York “Decade in Review: A Selection from the 1970’s,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York “The Intimate Gesture,” School of Visual Arts, New York “XV Bienal de Sao Paulo,” Armando de Arruda Pereira Pavilion, Sao Paulo “100 Artists, 100 Years: Alumni of The School of The Art Institute of Chicago,” The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “Animal and Art,” Phillips Auction House, New York 1978 “Chicago The City and Its Artist 1945-1978,” The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor “Cartoons,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Invitational Pring Show,” Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage 1977 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Twentieth Century American Art from Friends’ Collections,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Small Objects,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York The Art Institute of Chicago, Society for Contemporary Art, Chicago Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkhill “Fine Paintings and Drawings,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles “Recent Acquisitions:Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington 1976 “200 Years of American Sculpture,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Venice Biennale, Venice “Chicago Chic,” Taylor Hall Art Gallery, California State University, Chico “Critical Perspectives in American Art,” Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Visions- Painting and Sculpture: Distinguished Alumni 1945 to the Present,” The School of The Art Institute of Chicago “The Object as a Poet,” National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington 1975 “Made in Chicago: Some Resources,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “The Smalle Scale in Contemporary Art: Society of Contemporary Art 34th Exhibition,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Portland Art Museum, Portland National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington “Private Spaces: An Exhibition of Small Scale Sculpture,” Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine 1974 “Made in Chicago,” National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana Margo Leavin, Los Angeles “71st American Exhibition,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1973 Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “American Drawings 1963-1973,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Extraordinary Realities,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “The Chicago Style Prints, An Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Chicago Artists,” Center for Continuing Education, University of Chicago, Chicago Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover “3d into 2d: Drawing for Sculpture,” New York Cultural Center, New York United Nations Building, New York “IIeme Biennale Internationale de la Petite Sculpture,” Budapest

1972 “Chicago Imagist Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “Documenta 5,” Kassel Guggenheim Museum, New York Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford 1971 “Continuing Surrealism,” La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla Northern Illinios University, De Kalb “The New Curiosity Shop,” Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1970 “Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh “Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1969 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids “Contemporary Sculpture Selections II,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Tamarind: Homage to Lithography,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis “Towers,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “The Spirit of the Comics,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia “Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Denver Art Museum, Denver “The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture from Rodin to 1969,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago 1968 “Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage,” Museum of Modern Art, New York “Documenta 4,” Kassel “Snoitcerid,” Purdue University Gallery, West Lafayette “The Obsessive Image: 1960-1968” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco “Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Ravinia Festival Art Exhibit,” Highland Park 1967 “American Sculpture of the Sixties,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh Joe and Emily Lowe Art Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse 1966 “Eight Sculptors: The Ambiguous Image,” Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis “Multiplicity,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Public Education Association of the City of New York, New York “The Poetic Image,” Hanover Gallery, London Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence “Eight Sculptors: The Ambiguous Image,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus 1965 “The New American Realism,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester “American Sculpture,” Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence 1964 “Painting and Sculpture of a Decade: 1954-1964,” Tate Gallery, London “67th Annual American Exhibition: Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The School of The Art institute of Chicago, Chicago Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco “A Decade of New Talent,” American Federation of Arts, New York Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Dwan Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena “Pop Etc.” Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee “Neue Realisten und Pop Art,” Akademie der Kunste, Berlin “Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1963 “Pop Art USA,” Oakland Art Museum of California, Oakland “11 New England Sculptors,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Krannert Art Museum, Urbana Unitarian Chuch of Evanston, Evanston 1962 “Huit Artistes de Chicago: Barnes, Campoli, Cohen, June Leaf, Golub, Petlin, Rosofsky, Westermann,” Galerie du Dragon, Paris “Wit and Humor,” The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago 1961 “The Art of Assemblage,” Museum of Modern Art, New York Krannert Art Museum, Urbana 1960 Renaissance Society, Chicago 1959 “New Images of Man,” Museum of Modern Art, New York “62nd Annual Exhibition: Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The School of The Art institute of Chicago, Chicago “63rd Annual American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture,” The School of The Art institute of Chicago, Chicago “Out of the Ordinary,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston 1958 The Loft Gallery, Chicago Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford 1957 414 Art Workshop and Gallery, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago 1020 Art Center, Chicago 1956 “Momentum,” College of Jewish Education, Chicago “59th Annual Exhibition: Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The School of The Art institute of Chicago, Chicago Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago Barone Gallery, New York 1955 1020 Art Center, Chicago 1954 Mandel Brothers Art Galleries, Chicago La Boutique Gallery, Chicago Norths Gallery, Chicago

Grants and Awards

1973 Award from the Sao Paulo Biennial 1966 Award from The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities 1961 Grant from The National Council on the Arts 1960 New Talent Award, Art in America

Teaching

1976 Visiting Artist at Hartford Art School, West Hartford 1971 Visiting Artist at The University of Illinois, Urbana 1970 Guest Instructor at The San Francisco Art Institute