About this artwork
Westermann served as a gunner aboard the USS Enterprise during the Second World War and later reenlisted as a Marine during the Korean War. After his discharge in 1952, he began to pursue art, earning his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954. Using art as an outlet to express his concerns with the environment and human folly, the artist created obsessively crafted sculptural tableaux, prints, and drawings. Central America features a self-portrait and could be a commentary on his own artistic “hunt” for the exotic.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- H. C. Westermann
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Title
- Central America
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1973
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Medium
- Pen and black ink and watercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper
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Dimensions
- 57 × 76.4 cm (22 1/2 × 30 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Dorothy and Alan Press, the Dorothy and Alan Press Fund, and the Margaret Fisher Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1999.271
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Copyright
- © Estate of H.C. Westermann / Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
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