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letter
Description
Letter of condolence. Mentions the stilts HCW made for Ethan. Forest Knoels, CA
Date
November 10, 1981
Title
letter
Description
Letter of condolence. Boulder, CO.
Date
November 23, 1981
Title
letter
Description
Letter of condolence. NYC, mentions "Little Uncommitted Chicago Club."
Date
November 8, 1981
Title
letter
Description
Letter of condolence. Kansas City, MO.
Date
November 15, 1981
Title
letter
Description
Letter of condolence. Des Moines, IA.
Date
November 10, 1981
Title
letter
Description
Letter of condolence. Recollections of Cliff.
Date
November 4, 1981
Title
letter
Description
Letter of condolence. Max Hutchinson Gallery, NY
Date
November 5, 1981
Title
letter
Description
Letter of condolence, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
Date
November 30, 1981
Title
letter
Description
(letter to Xavier Fourcade)There is no definite date for the Westermann exhibit at the Conejo Valley Art Museum. Edwin Janss and his friends feel that they have sufficient Westermann works to create a show.
Date
May 18, 1981
Title
letter
Description
(Visual Arts Center of Alaska) Thanks for entry in the Alaska Invitational Print Show.
Date
July 6, 1978
Title
letter
Description
(University of Kansas) Invitation to lecture.
Date
October 14, 1976
Title
letter
Description
HCW's letters are always great to receive. Mentions his visit to HCW’s studio. Also, “About Medicine Lodge and your dead grandfather on the railroad tracks—may he rest in peace.” Nicholas Wilder came in and wants to sell his work.
Date
May 25, 1973
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letter
Description
(University of South Florida) Invitation to be visiting artist.
Date
October 30, 1975
Title
letter
Description
They are lending Pig House to the Art Institute of Chicago for two or three years to
be exhibited in the new gallery for 20th Century art. They would like to see a photograph of Hutch when it is done.
Date
January 26, 1977
Title
letter
Description
Very moved by the letters HCW sent to Dennis Adrian. “Thanks for the pig (and those pig assholes burning their papers).”
Date
March 7, 1977
Title
letter
Description
Autograph collector and teacher asks HCW to trace his hand and sign the paper. Includes a few examples of other famous persons who participated.
Date
July 11, 1984
Title
letter
Description
Fan letter. Asked to meet HCW if possible.
Date
May 2, 1969
Title
letter
Description
The Female Figure is one of the finest things he has done. He also likes the book a lot. He and Jean enjoyed the ride in the new truck with the oak bumpers. The summer show will have HCW’s set of woodcuts. Check enclosed.
Date
June 1, 1977
Title
letter
Description
Lipman sent copies of his correspondence concerning the acquisition of The Evil New War God to Joanna's parents, Lester and Dorothy Beall, "I think you will find it entertaining." Includes photocopies of correspondence with Katherine Kuh, Allan Frumkin, Peter Selz, Jack Baur, and Frederick Sweet. Letters dated 1958-1959.
Date
May 4, 1959
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letter
Description
(Madison Art Center) Would like to commission a piece of public art for downtown Madison, WI.
Date
September 26, 1977
Title
letter
Description
(John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation) Requesting candid and critical appraisal of the candidate whose papers are enclosed. (No enclosure with letter.)
Date
November 14, 1980
Title
letter
Description
He was pleased to attend Joanny's show. Her paintings were some of the best he's seen in years. Meeting HCW was just as he'd imagined it. He sent Brownie and Rhett [Robert and Rhett Delford Brown] a phototoon as thanks. He's moving out of Kenny's studio and into a building that Frank Gehry owns. "You remember Frank; he did the architectural part of the installation of Billy's show with you at the L.A. County Museum. A fine guy." He's going back to painting as the phototoons have become too expensive. He did enter the "Fearless Boston Bull" into the Davidson National.
Date
February 2, 1973
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letter
Description
She has a new job at the Hospital. She saw the article in Time on HCW and thinks the photo of him looks like John Wayne.
Date
June 14, 1972
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letter
Description
[Director, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago] Enclosing a check.
Date
January 6, 1970
Title
letter
Description
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) George Irwin’s collection will be shown in March 1980. One of HCW’s watercolors is in the collection and she would like to include some biographical material in the catalog.
Date
May 25, 1979
Title
letter
Description
Describes and sends photographs of a painting entitled "The Storm", that he believes is one of HCW's early pieces--the piece is dated 1953. Asks HCW is the painting is related to his experiences in Korea.
Date
November 29, 1987
Title
letter
Description
Going to start teaching at Berkeley, even though he’d rather not. The Terry Allen album is his favorite. “I really like the St. Petersburg card—it should be signed ‘coal drag of the rat watch.’”
Date
January 12, 1980
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letter
Description
(Assistant, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) inquiry about the availability of any new prints from HCW.
Date
April 15, 1969
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letter
Description
(Whitney Museum) She is happy that HCW liked Garabedian’s work; she would like to get together in August.
Date
June 11, 1975
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letter
Description
Thanks for the woodcut of a lady and gentleman dancing.
Date
July 14, 1977
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letter
Description
"Here are the mags and you look good too!"
Date
n.d., probably 1973
Title
letter
Description
Response to HCW’s letter to him. Mentions their time on the “Big E” and his own
experience in art school from 1948-53. He is going to try the comic strip route.
Date
August 27, 1974
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letter
Description
(gallery director, Cumberland College, KY) Requests HCW participate in an invitational exhibit in Oct. 1973.
Date
June 22, 1973
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letter
Description
Thanks for the money. The Air Force is a lot easier life than "the Crotch." He went through Air Force school in Denver and met Rita there. He is saving money for a down payment when he and Rita get out.
Date
June 12, 1973
Title
letter
Description
Words of encouragement about his work. The lithos he sent are "beautiful and very mysterious." She agrees that HCW should ask Allan for an increase. Even Ken Price sometimes gets $3000 for a tiny clay sculpture. She is sending him a little watercolor "that's something like my funky 'old' painting." Her father is doing better and is working on a few small watercolors. She loves the drawing he sent her. Signed: "Precious Indian--love J."
Date
October 9, 1968
Title
letter
Description
Received HCW's grim descriptions of time with Carl and Betty. Her Dad is going to the hospital in a few days and she's going to have her rash seen to. She's depressed about the election results--like being back in the 1950s. Updates him on work and the house. She is saving the bridge ties for HCW. She mentions Mrs. Clark [neighbor] and a situation with their property. Also mentions the collage drawings she sent him.
Date
November 6, 1968
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letter
Description
Requests for HCW to be a guest speaker at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia.
Date
April 25, 1978
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letter
Description
Grateful for HCW's reply to Wiley's postcard. Would like to visit HCW and have HCW visit Wiley at Davis to see Bruce Nauman's work (who is doing graduate work at Davis), casting some "gentle plastic things." Mentions Jim Newman of the Delexi Gallery and Bob Hudson, a sculptor.
Date
April 28, 1965
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letter
Description
"Thank you for the catalogue. The work is just beautiful! Like vitamins for the soul." Glad HCW will be visiting.
Date
July 15, 1970
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letter
Description
Thanks for letter/drawing and visit. The show at Berkeley was beautiful.
Date
May 28, 1971
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letter
Description
(School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Offer of a part-time teaching position.
Date
May 10, 1977
Title
letter
Description
Thanks for the orange sneakers (which came in a wooden box) [Converse All-stars per letter of 11/1/1974]; loved the drawing HCW did for "Jim-Bo's new gallery." Probably Jim Corcoran's gallery.
Date
March 15, 1974
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letter
Description
Great to see HCW at the show. “You are a great artist craftsman and above all a hell of a human being. You have been a good friend guide and teacher.” “Jack and I wanted you to have ‘a Suite of Daze’ just to bug you if nothing else.
Date
May 31, 1978
Title
letter
Description
Would HCW send a letter to Allan Frumkin to so he can pick out some of HCW’s pieces for the show at Morton High School and College? He has had the cards printed and sent out. He is sorry to hear HCW and his son [Greg Westermann] aren’t getting on well.
Date
March 3, 1968
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