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Title
letter
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Enjoyed the Westermann’s visit today. He admires HCW greatly. Claes Oldenburg admitted to him that HCW was one of his first big influences.
Date
May 7, 1970
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letter
Description
They are delighted with the new home Cliff and Joanna have found them.
Date
September 28, 1973
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letter
Description
“It is my opinion that our born again Peanut needs our assistance in saving America!!!”
Date
July 27, 1978
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letter
Description
Greetings from Florida and a drawing “El Tango de La Paz.”
Date
February 1, 1974
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letter
Description
Glad to receive HCW's letter. Sending him a poster from the Phyllis Kind show. Dennis Adrian. Jim Nutt.
Date
n.d. (possibly 1975)
Title
letter
Description
(Executive Director, Artists Equity Association) Thanks for HCW’s endorsement of their declaration and the check.
Date
August 26, 1974
Title
letter
Description
She hasn’t heard from Greg since he left, but Penny told him not to write to her.
Date
May 23, 1967
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letter
Description
He saw HCW’s show at the Serpentine in London and it was great. He especially liked On the Other Side of the Mountain since Jean has the great birthday card of the same theme. Which came first? His son is making some progress physically.
Date
January 27, 1981
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letter
Description
(Philadelphia College of Art, sculptor, see MCA 261) Request for HCW to lecture. She took slides of the circus wagons at the Ringling Brothers Circus Museum in Baraboo, WI. HCW should see them when he is in New York next.
Date
September 20, 1975
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letter
Description
General news; saw HCW’s last redwood piece at Allan’s, finds it beautiful and strange. The new bronze piece sounds wonderful, hopes the foundry problems work out.
Date
July 6, 1966
Title
letter
Description
Thanks for death-ship drawing and letter. Allan said that HCW has done a piece on the death-ship theme and “the tire tracks are a very effective part of the image.” Discusses the interview HCW had with Martin Friedman and the tendency most NY artists have of having an elaborate explanations of their work.
Date
October 22, 1966
Title
letter
Description
He saw the three new pieces HCW sent to Allan, and thinks they are extraordinary. (Mentions 47 lbs., the bronze death ship and the ship covered with money.) Discusses the Kansas City lithographs HCW did as well as
prints by Peter Saul and Philip Pearlstein. Mentions the article he wrote for Art Forum and that the L.A. County Museum has decided to do his show. LACMA
Date
March 31, 1967
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letter
Description
Remarks on health food people and vegetarians. He and Jo Harvey are booked to play on New Year’s Eve at a club called Coldwater Country. He gives details of the proposed performance. He has a Jackalope sculpture in his studio. “They sing in a high pitched voice that mimics humans.” [date from postmark]
Date
November 26, 1980
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letter
Description
Enclosing “documents” [cartoons] to show they were on the “up &up.” [Frank Gaard]
Date
January 12, 1980
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letter
Description
(L.A. County Museum) A note about HCW’s request for catalogs.
Date
January 7, 1969
Title
letter
Description
Article from Los Angeles Times West Magazine, November 30, 1969. ‘There Was an Old Woman Who Worked in a Shoe.’ Unique West Coast architecture.
Date
November 29, 1969
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letter
Description
Writes to say how HCW’s work has been a catalyst for his own art.
Date
November 1, 1979
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letter
Description
(postcard from the Yoga Philosophic Health Center) Greetings.
Date
Feburary 8, 1966
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letter
Description
Thanks for HCW’s note. They have been busy with their 20 acre organic farm/ranch.
Date
February 14, 1967
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letter
Description
(University of Michigan) Request to teach as visiting artist.
Date
October 10, 1973
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letter
Description
Spoke of the work he was doing and HCW’s show at Corcoran.
Date
April 14, 1974
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letter
Description
He and Penny [Little] are running in the New York marathon on October 22 and would love to get together. They will be dressed in hot pink with their team logo “Hollywood Hamsters” in black.
Date
October 2, 1978
Title
letter
Description
Partial letter discuses HCW's mother, Florita; knives; and HCW's grandfather
Date
April 23, 1977
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letter
Description
Would like to see HCW’s work when he and his wife are in Connecticut this summer.
Date
April 13, 1979
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letter
Description
Outlines the progress he has made on research for the essay. In addition to specific inquiries about HCW, he has been reading the Chicago Tribune day-by-day for the period 1957-1958 as well as other contemporary literature and magazines to get general ideas about homemaking in the 1950s.
Date
November 11, 1994
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letter
Description
Encloses a copy of the article for Joanna. Mentions a problem with the caption for illustration #9, a miscommunication with the editor.
Date
April 25, 1996
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letter
Description
[JBW to Garvey] Thanks for copy of article. "Although your essay was interesting in regard to post W.W.II housing projects, I still feel, as before, that it is not germane to the sculpture of H.C. Westermann."
Date
May 11, 1996
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letter
Description
Moved by her visit to HCW’s studio and Joanna’s pictures. Thrilled that Richard [Hollander] acquired one of Joanna’s pieces. Her lighter worked wonderfully.
Date
October 19, 1977
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letter
Description
Questioned the essay's format because "in the view of past experiences I've become wary of the possibility of H.C. Westermann's work being inserted as a side issue within a larger discussion whose subject has little relevance to his work." She discusses Brinkmanship, The Unaccountable, and other sculptures that might be of interest, including: Evil New War God, About a Black Magic Maker, Where Angels Fear to Tread, W.W. I, II, & III Generals, Unfinished Head of a Mean, Warlike Man, Death Ship Run Over by a 66' Lincoln Continental, Battle of Little Jack's Creek. Grants permission to view the archive and suggests he contact Dennis Adrian.
Date
May 12, 1955
Title
letter
Description
Encloses a copy of the latest draft of his essay. Critiques the new Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C.
Date
August 30, 1995
Title
letter
Description
JBW writes to Duquette at the Whitney to clarify that she is executrix, not VAGA, of HCW's estate.
Date
May 11, 1996
Title
letter
Description
Everyone in Albuquerque knows the Westermanns. Mentions Charles Mattox’s kinetic sculpture. He is at Tamarind and he imagines it is not as efficiently organized as it probably was in L.A.
Date
October 4, 1970
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letter
Description
Letter of condolence. Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Department
Date
November 5, 1981
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letter
Description
Thanks for the glorious dustpan.
Date
September 4, 1978
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letter
Description
(Queens College, New York) Request for HCW to participate in the lecture and criticism program.
Date
July 10, 1973
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letter
Description
[Irene Burke's grandson, Penny Westermann's nephew, Gregg Westermann's first cousin] Thanks for the gift HCW sent. He would like to meet HCW some day.
Date
January 21, 1967
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letter
Description
Invitation to exhibit while he is guest instructor at San Francisco Art Institute; either sculpture or perhaps See America First.
Date
July 2, 1970
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letter
Description
(Cornell University) He is working on a film project at Cornell and has written to Allan Frumkin for permission to film several ofHCW’s pieces. He is requesting HCW permission as well. Enclosed an explanation of the Cornell Archives of Contemporary Art.
Date
March 20, 1967
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letter
Description
Kenny and Happy must have told HCW and Joanna that they were getting married. They are going to Mexico for a week then Billy Al is going to teach in Colorado. She loves her Big Red Indian lithograph.
Date
May 24, 1969
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letter
Description
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Thanks for help and cooperation on the show.
Date
November 27, 1968
Title
letter
Description
Draws comparisons of HCW’s work to his life. Asks for photographs of HCW’s studio, house, etc.
Date
October 23, 1969
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letter
Description
(Director, Dartmouth College Galleries) Invitation for a one year residency at Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) in Berlin.
Date
May 11, 1976
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letter
Description
Would like to see the Westermanns next time they are in New York.
Date
April 3, 1979
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letter
Description
(University of Colorado) Invitation to teach.
Date
May 10, 1972
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letter
Description
She was appalled at the condition of Rope Tree, which she hadn’t seen since its return from Documenta. What does HCW suggest that she use to clean it?
Date
February 8, 1969
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letter
Description
(Artist Equity Association) Thanks for attending the meeting of June 15. They have established a temporary committee to establish a Connecticut chapter of the AEA.
Date
June 28, 1976
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