Wet Flower

1968

H. C. Westermann
American, 1922-1981

Status: On View, Gallery 227
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: H. C. Westermann
Title: Wet Flower
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.: 1968
Medium: Wood, glass, Connecticut fieldstone, linoleum, dried roots, putty, and varnish.
Dimensions: 73.7 × 45.8 × 35.6 cm (29 × 18 × 14 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Alan and Dorothy Press in acknowledgment of their family
Reference Number: 2023.2913

Max Kozloff, H. C. Westermann, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968), 14, 41, cat. 49 (ill.).
Hedley Donovan, ed., “Fishhooks in the Memory” Time, Dec. 20, 1968, 67 (color ill.), 69.
Janet Hobhouse, “In the Galleries: H.C. Westermann” Arts Magazine 44, no. 8 (Summer 1970), 68.
Dore Ashton, 10 Independents: An Artist–Initiated Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1972), 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), 135, pl. 69 (color ill.), 192, 267, 303, MCA cat. rais. 181 (ill.), 304, 323.
Michael Rooks, Lynne Warren, Dennis Adrian, and Robert Storr, H.C. Westermann: Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001), 135, pl. 69 (color ill.), 192.
Museum of Contemporary Art, H.C. Westermann, exh. pamphlet (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001), n.p.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, H.C. Westermann, exh. pamphlet (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2002), n.p.
Giampaolo Bianconi, Thea Liberty Nichols, and Ed Ruscha, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 33, n. 12, 80, pl. 11, 81-84 (color ills.), 107, cat. 11.

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, H. C. Westermann, Nov. 26, 1968–Jan. 12, 1969, cat. 49.
New York, Allan Frumkin Gallery, H. C. Westermann, May 2–Jun. 12, 1970, no cat.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Ten Independents: An Artist Initiated Exhibition, Jan. 14–Feb. 27, 1972, no cat. no.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, H. C. Westermann, Jun 30–Sept. 23, 2001, cat. 69; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Feb 14–May 12, 2002; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jun. 9–Sept. 8, 2002; Houston, Menil Collection, Oct. 4, 2002–Jan. 5, 2003.
The Art Institute of Chicago, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, May 17, 2025–May 17, 2026, cat. 11.

The artist; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kaufman, New York, by 1972 [Ashton 1972]. Alan and Dorothy Press, Chicago, by 2001 [Rooks and Warren 2001]; their estate; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Aug. 29, 2023.

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