H.C. Westermann

[richard romeo]

the Village Voice mentioned this artist:

H.C. Westermann (April 28-June 4, Lennon, Weinberg Inc., 514 West 25th
Street, 212-941-0012) took a different tack on the vernacular. A
marine who served in the Pacific during World War II, Westermann is
justly famous for his "Death Ships" series, with its evocations of the
surreal cruelties of war. This exhibition is a collection of drawings,
woodcuts, and watercolors focusing on his women:
mother/sister/wife/vamp/angel/demon/virgin/whore, all executed with a
brio and fearlessness prefiguring underground comics. If Thomas
Pynchon had wanted an illustrator for V's maniacal sailors and their
paramours, Westermann would've been his man.

I could see him painting the surreal Western scene in GR when Slothrop
is put under by Pointsman

I expect Pynchon was aware of his art?

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424132913/_Horace_Clifford_Westermann_Woman_Descending_Into_Paradise.html

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_5_88/ai_62111785

rich