 Artist's arttributes:
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Works on Paper, Printmaking, Sculpture |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 109 |
| Germany | 10 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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George Adams Gallery, USA |
24 |
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Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., USA |
9 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), USA |
6 |
Biography: 
1922 Born in Los Angeles, CA (US)
1941 - 1942 worked as a woodcutter, stone mason and carpenter
1942 - 1946 he served in the U.S. Marine Corps
1946 - 1947 he worked as an acrobat and toured the Orient
1947 - 1952 studied commercial art and painting, 1952, at the Art Institute of
Chicago.
Fought in the Korean War
1978 - 1979 he had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which was shown in several cities in the USA
1980 - 1981 the Arts Council organized a retrospective exhibition for a tour of Great Britain
Awards 1973 he won the Grand Prix at the Sao Paulo Biennale
1981 Died in Danbury, CT (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 124
Solo shows 30
2012
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| H.C. Westermann - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Woodcuts, Linocuts, and Lithographs 1962-1975 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Woodcuts, Linocuts, and Lithographs 1962-1975 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H. C. Westermann - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| H.C. Westermann: Selected Work - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| H.C. Westermann - Dreaming of a Speech Without Words - Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ |
2006
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| Dreaming of a speech without words - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
2005
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| H. C. Westermann | Woman, “the sweetest flower” - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
2002
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| H.C. Westermann - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
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| See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| H. C. Westermann - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| See America first : the prints of H. C. Westermann - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
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| H.C. Westermann | The Complete Lithographs, 1968-1972 - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| H.C. Westermann - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
2001
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| H. C. Westermann - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| See America first - the prints of H. C. Westermann - Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL |
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| The Sea of Cortez - Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
2000
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| H. C. Westermann | Deathship: Important Sculpture, Drawings, Prints - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
1998
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| H. C. Westermann | The Connecticut Ballroom and Related Works - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| H.C. Westermann - Selected Sculpture & Drawings - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| H. C. Westermann | Sculpture - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
1989
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| H.C. Westermann: Sculpture, Watercolors, Letters, Prints - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1984
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| H.C. Westermann: Drawings - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1980
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| HC Westermann - Serpentine Gallery, London (England) |
1978
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| H.C. Westermann: New Works - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1974
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| H.C. Westermann: New Sculpture and Drawings - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1973
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| H.C. Westermann: New Sculpture and Graphics - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1969
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| H. C. Westermann - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
1968
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| H. C. Westermann - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
Group shows 94
2013
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| The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| At Table and in Bed - Andreas Melas & Helena Papadopoulos , Athens |
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| H.C. Westermann & Dan Attoe - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Artists' Ink - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Automaton - Galerie Daniel Buchholz - Köln, Cologne |
2011
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| Chicago Imagists at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| Chicago School: Imagists in Context - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
2010
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| Watercolors and Sculpture - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Four Decades - Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Figures in Chicago Imagism - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
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| New and Classic - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Wall to Wall - Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| S.M.S.: An Archive of the 60s - UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA |
2009
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| Wood - Maccarone Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Intense - Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL |
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| Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Exile on Main St. Humour, exaggeration & anti-authoritarianism in American art - Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht |
2008
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| on line - Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sack of Bones (Los Angeles) - - Peres Projects - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (closed, 2010) |
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| Looking for mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk und Minimal Art: Kunst und Counterculture in San Francisco um 1968 - Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Flow Charting - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
2007
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| The Comic Uncanny - Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| The nicest distance between two points is a curve - Linn Lühn, Cologne |
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| Paradise - Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA |
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| This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Academy - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Automatic - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Upon an Ether Sea: Water and Ship Imagery from the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Bold Saboteurs - Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL |
2006
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| The Subverted Object - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Drawings - Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| GROUP SHOW - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Highlights - New Acquisitions - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2004
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| Toys in the Attic - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
2003
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| Painter's Forms - - The Work Space, New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Multiple Artists: Print and Editioned Works, 1967-2003 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Gallery Group Show - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Road Show - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Museum Store Collects - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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| Tools as Art - The Hechinger Collection - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Drawings, Drawings, Drawings - Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| War (What Is It Good for?) - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
2002
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| Whisper - Sammelausstellung zum elfjährigen Jubiläum - - Galerie Aurel Scheibler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 2005) |
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| Something Anything - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
2001
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| West of Westermann - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| American Bricolage - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Destruction / Creation - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
1998
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| Deep Storage: The Arsenal of Memory - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Selections From the Collection of Marne and James DeSilva - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| UTZ, A Collected Exhibition - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
1997
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| Deep Storage - Sammeln, Speichern, Archivieren in der Kunst - Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin |
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| Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
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| Deep Storage - Arsenale der Erinnerung - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1996
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| The Subverted Object - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Gun: Icon of Twentieth Century Art - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Out of 'Toon - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| The Box: From Duchamp to Horn - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Group Exhibition - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Figure Drawing - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 40th Anniversary Exhibition: Selections by Gallery Artists from the Richard Brown Baker Collection - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Word As Image: American Art 1960–1990 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1989
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| Arbeit mit Papier - Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz |
1987
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| Sculpture of the Sixties - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1986
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| Sculpture Installation - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1984
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| Anniversary Exhibition - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1982
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| The Americans: The Collage - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Works in Wood - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1979
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| Contemporary Sculpture from Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1978
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| New Work by Gallery Artists - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1977
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| Summer Show - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ideas in Sculpture 1965-1977 - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Fine Paintings and Drawings - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Gallery Decade - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1976
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| La Biennale di Venezia 1976 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Bicentennial Exhibition - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1972
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| New Works by Gallery Artists - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel |
1971
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| Prints and Drawings - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sculptors' Drawings - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The New Curiosity Shop - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Summer Exhibition - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1968
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| documenta 4 - Documenta, Kassel |
1967
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| Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1966
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| Society for Contemporary Art 26th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1964
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| American Paintings and Sculpture 67th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1959
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| American Painting and Sculpture 63rd Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Out of the Ordinary - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| New Images of Man - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Recent Sculpture U.S.A. - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 4 |
United Kingdom
| | Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England)
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USA
| | George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM
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Collections 6
USA
| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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