Dovetailed House

1979

H. C. Westermann
American, 1922-1981

Status: On View, Gallery 227
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: H. C. Westermann
Title: Dovetailed House
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.: 1979
Medium: Pine, enamel, plate glass, linoleum, and cast lead
Dimensions: 48.6 × 35 × 35 cm (19 1/8 × 13 3/4 × 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Alan and Dorothy Press in acknowledgment of their family
Reference Number: 2023.2915.1-2

Kim Levin, “An Opinionated Survey of the Week’s Events, November 11-17” The Village Voice, Nov. 1, 1981, n.p.
Gerald Marzorati, “Art Picks: H.C. Westermann” Soho News (Nov. 10, 1981), (ill.).
Dextra Frankel, Jan Butterfield, and Michael Harrison Smith, The House That Art Built, exh. cat. (Fullerton: California State University, 1983), 103.
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), 42, fig. 10 (color ill.), 361 MCA cat rais. 303 (ill.).
Giampaolo Bianconi, Thea Liberty Nichols, and Ed Ruscha, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 96, pl. 15, 97-99 (color ills), 107, cat. 15.

New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Small Scale: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Jan. 12–Feb. 23, 1980, no cat.
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., H. C. Westermann: New Sculpture and Watercolors, 1978–1981, Oct. 28–Nov. 28, 1981, no cat.
Fullerton, CA, Visual Arts Center, California State University, The House That Art Built, Oct. 28–Dec. 7, 1983, no cat. no.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, H. C. Westermann: Selections from the Alan and Dorothy Press Collection, Mar. 13–May 3, 1987, no cat. no.
Chicago, Compass Rose Gallery, H. C. Westermann, Nov. 15, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, May 17, 2025–May 17, 2026, cat. 15.

The artist; Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. Alan (1930-2021) and Dorothy Press (1933-2023), Chicago, by 1987 [Benezra 1987]; their estate; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Aug. 29, 2023.

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