H.C. Westermann

[Ghetta Life]

http://www.ku.edu/~sma/westerm/westerm.htm

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/record.asp?Artist=Westermann&hasImage=1&ViewMode=&Record=1

http://worldart.sjsu.edu/4DACTION/HANDLECGI/CTN1?theKW=Horace+Clifford+WESTERMANN&RefineSearch=NewSelection

http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/fnews/2001-september/septreviews2.html

http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/10072

>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.
>

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