Rotting Jet Wing

1966

H. C. Westermann
American, 1922-1981

Status: On View, Gallery 227
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: H. C. Westermann
Title: Rotting Jet Wing
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1966
Medium: Pine, plate glass, felt, and copper
Dimensions: 98.8 × 69.6 × 37.2 cm (38 7/8 × 27 3/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Alan and Dorothy Press in acknowledgment of their family
Reference Number: 2023.2911

A. James Speyer, Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1967), n.p., as Rotting Jet Wing, 1967.
Annuals Committee of the San Francisco Art Institute, Untitled, 1968, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968), n.p. (ill.), cat. 76, as Rotting Jet Wing, 1967.
Max Kozloff, H.C. Westermann (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968), 10, as Rotting Jet Wing, 1967.
Volker Kahmen, Erotic Art Today (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1971), 147, as Rotting jet wing 1967, n.p. pl. 181 (ill.), 279.
Neal Benezra, H. C. Westermann: Selections from the Alan and Dorothy Press Collection, exh. brochure (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), n.p.
Michael Rooks and Lynne Warren, eds., H. C. Westermann: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonné of Objects, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001), 291, 292 MCA cat. rais. 158 (ill).
Giampaolo Bianconi, Thea Liberty Nichols, and Ed Ruscha, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 15, pl. 8, 70, pl. 8, 71 (color ill.), 106, cat. 8.

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, June 23–Aug. 27, 1967, no cat. no.
San Francisco Museum of Art, Untitled 1968, Nov. 9–Dec. 29, 1968, cat. 76.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, H. C. Westermann: Selections from the Alan and Dorothy Press Collection, Mar. 13–May 3, 1987, no cat. no.
The Art Institute of Chicago, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, May 17, 2025–May 17, 2026, cat. 8.

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York. Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany. Alan and Dorothy Press, by 1987 [Benezra 1987]; their estate; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Aug. 29, 2023.

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