Uncommitted Little Chicago Child

1957

H. C. Westermann
American, 1922-1981

Status: On View, Gallery 227
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: H. C. Westermann
Title: Uncommitted Little Chicago Child
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.: 1957
Medium: Oak, maple, metal clock face, and paper découpage
Dimensions: 75 × 16.9 × 20.4 cm (29 1/2 × 6 5/8 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Alan and Dorothy Press in acknowledgment of their family
Reference Number: 2023.2917

Dennis Adrian, H. C. Westermann: Recent Work, exh. cat. (Chicago: Allan Frumkin Gallery, 1959), n.p. cat. 8 (ill.), as The Uncommitted Little Chicago Child, 1958.
Irving Sandler, “H.C. Westermann” Artnews 60, no. 3 (May 1961), 14, as The Uncommitted Little Chicago Child.
Paul Carroll, “Here Come the Chicago Monsters” Chicago Perspective 13, no. 2 (February 1964), 37, as The Uncommitted Little Chicago Girl.
Barbara Haskell, H. C. Westermann, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978), 38 (ill.), 91, as The Uncommitted Little Chicago Child.
Martha B. Scott, “H.C. Westermann’s Fascinating Contradiction of Order Mystery” Sunday Post (Bridgeport, CT), July 2, 1978, F-7, as “an uncommitted little Chicago kid.”
Stuart Morgan,“Ebb Tide in New York” Artscribe, no. 14 (October 1978), 51, as An Uncommitted Little Chicago Child.
Ron Glowen, “H.C. Westermann Retrospective” Artweek 10, no. 7 (February 17, 1979), 1, as The Uncommitted Little Chicago Child.
Neal Benezra, H. C. Westermann: Selections from the Alan and Dorothy Press Collection, exh. brochure (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), n.p.
Jill Weinberg and Bernard Lennon, H. C. Westermann: Sculpture and Drawing, exh. cat. (New York: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., 1988), n.p. (ill.).
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), 35, fig. 1 (color ill.), 40, 183, 230 MCA cat. rais. 30 (ill.), 236.
Giampaolo Bianconi, Thea Liberty Nichols, and Ed Ruscha, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 42, pl. 1, 43-45 (color ills.), 106, cat. 1.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, H. C. Westermann, May 17–July 16, 1978, no cat. no.; New Orleans Museum of Art, Aug. 25–Oct. 15, 1978; Des Moines Art Center, Nov. 13–Dec. 25, 1978; Seattle Art Museum, Jan. 17–Feb. 25, 1979; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 30–May 20, 1979.
New York, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., H. C. Westermann: Sculpture and Drawing, Oct. 7–Nov. 19, 1988, no cat. no.
The Art Institute of Chicago, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, May 17, 2025–May 17, 2026, cat. 1.

The artist; sold to B. C. Holland Gallery, Chicago by 1959 [Adrian 1959]. Charles S. Jules, New York, by 1978 [Haskell 1978]. Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. 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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