The Sonic Boom

1963

H. C. Westermann
American, 1922-1981

Status: On View, Gallery 227
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: H. C. Westermann
Title: The Sonic Boom
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.: 1963
Medium: Wood, plate-glass mirror, bubinga, paint, and ink
Dimensions: 55.9 × 45.5 × 13.4 cm (22 × 17 7/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Alan and Dorothy Press in acknowledgment of their family
Reference Number: 2023.2918

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Recent Sculpture by H. C. Westermann, exh. cat. (New York: Allan Frumkin Gallery, 1963), n.p., cat. 12 (ill.).
Robina C. Clark, ed., “Westermann Sculpture Exhibited on One-Man Show in New York” Danbury News Times (CT), Oct. 17, 1963, 16.
Donald Judd, “In the Galleries: H.C. Westermann” Arts Magazine 38, no. 1 (October 1963): 58.
G.R. Swenson, “H.C. Westermann” Artnews 62, no. 6 (October 1963): 12 (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), 180, 254, MCA cat rais. 74 (ill.).
Giampaolo Bianconi, Thea Liberty Nichols, and Ed Ruscha, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 64, pl. 6, 65 (color ill.), 106, cat. 6.

New York, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Recent Sculpture by H. C. Westermann, Oct. 8–26, 1963, cat. 12.
The Art Institute of Chicago, H. C. Westermann: Anchor Clanker, May 17, 2025–May 17, 2026, cat. 6.

The artist; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York. Leon Kraushaar (died 1967), New York, by 1967. Patricia Gregerson Millington, Peekabo, ID. James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles. 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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