Who What Where WhenWHAT
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He and Roy enjoyed the show and seeing HCW. He hopes HCW will continue to take care of himself.
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September 13, 1978
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letter
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Writing book, A Decade of Sculpture, and would like to include HCW.
Date
January 18, 1971
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letter
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They are in Hawaii and when he looks out at the Pacific he thinks of HCW’s work. He looks forward to the show being over so that Fool’s Gold, Sailboat and Congo
can come home.
Date
October 29, 1978
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letter
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Found an ad in the local paper (Sewickley Herald) for Westermann Painting and wonders if things are going badly. He is glad his three Westermann pieces are back; they were missed while on loan. (Ad included in letter.)
Date
September 7, 1979
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letter
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Thanks for the letter on his behalf and for returning the slides.
Date
November 11, 1974
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letter
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[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago] Check receipt for $107.45 to reimburse HCW for collect delivery of art sent to him.
Date
March 24, 1969
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(Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco). She was sorry to hear of HCW’s illness. Writes to clarify her previous letter which expresses interest in participating with Allan Frumkin and Jim Corcoran on an exhibit at the gallery at a later date.
Date
April 26, 1978
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[JBW to Garvey] Joanna mentions that she thinks it's possible that the "premature break-up of home-life for HCW at the time of his mother's entry into a sanatorium for TB may have a relationship to the appeal the house-form had for him at that time." She approves of Garvey's use of the phrase "small scale" rather than "miniature" when referring to HCW's houses. Gives some details as to various characters living in the Gold Coast at the same time that HCW did. Mentions spaceship-houses in HCW's drawings at the time; also almost all of his houses had a tower, usually with a figure or memorial in them. She will send a photograph of the octagon house sketch. It got a bit wet several years ago and is slightly blurred.
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June 17, 1995
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He is sorry JBW is disappointed with the article.
Date
May 30, 1996
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Writing for permission to examine the HCW Papers at the American Archives of Art. He is intending to write an essay about Brinkmanship. Encloses his CV.
Date
April 19, 1995
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letter
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Writes with specific questions about HCW and the sculpture Brinksmanship.
Date
June 28, 1995
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Letter of condolence. Beverly Hills, CA.
Date
November 6, 1981
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John Altoon died a week ago. Serge [Lozingot] was excited about the piece HCW sent him; Ed [Ruscha] is doing nifty prints [at Tamarind]; his own prints are coming along well at Gemini. Will be visiting soon.
Date
February 15, 1969
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They have moved to Santa Monica. “Got you an amusing smoke in London but haven’t had time to send it yet.”
Date
February 8, 1970
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He is watching a program on nudity. Writes about their new house. Happy is pregnant and he’s “all for it.”
Date
March 9, 1970
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Sorry they haven’t written in so long. Kenny is still working on the Curio Store, his lifelong project.
Date
November 19, 1974
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Thanks for the woodcut. The Curio Store piece has changed in order to accommodate art fair and museum travel. They will be in New York for six days in November and would like to get together with the Westermanns.
Date
August 18, 1977
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Congratulation on grant from the National Council on the Arts. General family news.
Date
January 5, 1967
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Enjoyed the photographs they sent. “It made me feel good to see Cliff up in a tree
again—takes me back 30 years or more.” Uncle Karl passed away on Sunday. Wordsof encouragement to HCW about making his art.
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n.d.
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They are excited about the catalog of HCW’s latest show. “Mike was amazed at
‘Cliff’..that is quite a play on words.” Mentions that she is having the coffee table remade with inlays of zebra wood and what a coincidence is was to see the zebra wood in Strong Man’s Chair. Mentions the Cambodian incident and the school protests. She writes about reading Jung’s Man and His Symbols and then having a strange dream about HCW’s piece The Last Ray of Hope.
Date
May 13, 1970
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Thanks for the Christmas cards and the beautiful box for their mother's books. Received and announcement for the Guggenheim's "Independents" show. Thank you for the article from Artforum. General family news.
Date
January 10, 1972
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General family news; she is attacking some poison oak in the yard. Mentions Richard Reisman.
Date
May 18, 1972
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Did HCW see the comet Kohoutek when he was in Mexico? She has been concerned about HCW since the 7th and wonders if he is still in the hospital.
Date
January 14, 1974
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Mentions that Greg Westermann has a daughter, making HCW a grandfather and she and LeNore great aunts. Pleased to hear of Joanna's show at the Corcoran Gallery.
Date
September 7, 1974
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Recounts the good time they had visiting HCW and JBW.
Date
July 15, 1975
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Mentions an article she saw in the Brookfield Journal with a photograph of a stump, cross, and a Yuban can with flowers. "I knew you had something to do with it, and when I read the inscription on the cross I knew for sure." Someone cut down a healthy tree. Describes the family's vacation experiences sailing in the West Indies.
Date
July 6, 1977
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Thanks for the letter of recommendation. He's gotten the job but with the price of gasoline is not sure he can afford the 10-mile roundtrip.
Date
May 10, 1979
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Thanks for the letters about Nixon and the little old lady with the radio.
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October 14, 1973
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She and Roger have moved to Lake Tahoe. She wants to visit HCW in spring.
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September 8, 1974
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Writes about his recent move from Chicago to California. Everyone in California is awaiting the arrival of the Queen Mary in December.
Date
November 21, 1967
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Asks if Joanna exhibited with “Women in the Arts” group in New York. Asks if HCW
ever saw the Aborigine art at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Date
January 29, 1973
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[Metropolitan Museum of Art] Confirming the extended loan of Burning House until 11/1/1987. It will continue to be on view in the sculpture gallery of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing.
Date
August 24, 1987
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(Austin, TX) It was good to see HCW, and thanks for the exhibit brochure. He would like to see some of Joanna’s work sometime.
Date
July 9, 1979
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Pin collector in New Jersey thanking the Westermanns for the check they sent for the B.W.R.S. thumbs up pin. He responded to Joanna’s ad in the New York Times (9/27-10/2/77) to purchase a British War Relief Society lapel pin [BWRS]. He was sorry that he had not heard of Lester Beall, “he may have been ahead of me.” [Advert clipping with letter]
Date
October 14, 1977
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He encloses three slides of the pieces remembering Cliff and the announcement for the exhibition. Mentions Happy and Ken Price.
Date
September 18, 1995
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Tells stories of family and friends of hers.
Date
August 12, 1971
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Just got news of HCW’s Whitney retrospective from Barbara Haskell.
Date
August 25, 1977
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Glad he likes Tamarind; the Culligan water system kills all the plants; she went to the bread place--everyone in the store admired HCW's laminated wooden forms; the raccoons have been aggressive; there is a group of people trying to save the village store; Danbury is trying to make Brookfield one of its suburbs. Don Sprinkler phoned from Long Beach. She is enclosing a letter to HCW from Carl.
Date
August 30, 1968
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She loves the beautiful watercolor he sent sent--wishes he'd do more; her father is coming home Friday; she loves the wonderful letters and postcards and the drawing made her laugh; she's been working out 2-3 times a week and also doing some yoga. The crows have come back after a long absence. She's getting a lot of resentment from the office people. She saw Hubert Humphrey on Joey Bishop last night--bad speaker but a real fighter; LBJ queered the whole Democratic party; she doesn't want Nixon/Agnew or Wallace, so she'll vote for Humphrey; She saw one of Andy Warhol's starlets and some scenes from one of his movies--quite inept; read the diaries of Che Guevara-interesting-sad--their methods were very archaic--they ended up eating their pets and mules and horses.
Date
September 24, 1968
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She will send the print to Ken Price as HCW instructed. News about the raccoons; her father is better-problem was too much insulin. She wants to do a painting on the truck. They are spending too much money feeding the raccoons. They got a flyer in the mail of Herb Pannier's show at Morton College and an announcement of Bill Copley's wedding to Stella Chuang-Hua. She is sending HCW the absentee ballot--there are a lot of Wallace fan clubs springing up on the East coast. Thanks for the "See America First" painting.
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October 4, 1968
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She received HCW's letter and 2 beautiful cards. Asks if they have to pay Allan back the $800 and what are HCW's money plans for November. Recounts an amusing story about buying HCW's Christmas present from a door-to-door salesman. HCW's friend Joe from the barbershop visited and used the punching bag.
Date
October 14, 1968
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Received HCW's letters and cards--she has a great collection of cards now. "Don't let the museum people bother you." She thinks HCW's idea for a party sounds great. She received a humorous booklet from Billy Al Bengston that said "Sunshine to Joanna" on the front. It had something to do with a presentation dinner and business cards. "I hope you notice the stamp on the envelope as my Dad did it." [Andrew Jackson 10 cent stamp?] Pages about her loneliness without HCW. Mentions the "blood thirsty fights back in Chicago" that they had--"they were really worth it."
Date
October 22, 1968
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Raccoon story--sweet little skunk. She's got red splotches on her neck and stomach--possibly a virus. She hopes he enjoys Santa Clara and that the boxes don't cause him too much trouble.
Date
October 26, 1968
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She is still "spell-bound" by the lithographs. She is going to NY to visit her father in the hospital and do Christmas shopping. She is still enjoying the jerky he sent and she loves the tree stump vase, but part got broken in the mail--she's repairing it.
Date
November 18, 1968
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She received the letters and drawings. Her eye is giving her trouble again, so she went with Brad and Dot to NY to see the doctor. News about the animals. She saw a picture of The Big Change in a book about collections by Jean Lipman. She's glad HCW saw Walt [Baptiste] and Magaña.
Date
April 21, 1971
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1980 knot print/drawing. “Best wishes for the Westermann family."
Date
1980
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