H.C. Westermann, Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea, 1958
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Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea, 1958
Pine, bottle caps, cast-tin toys, glass, metal, brass, ebony, and enamel
56 ½ × 38 × 14 ¼ in. (143.5 × 96.5 × 36.2 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Susan and Lewis Manilow Collection of Chicago Artists, 1993.34
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea, 1958
Pine, bottle caps, cast-tin toys, glass, metal, brass, ebony, and enamel
56 ½ × 38 × 14 ¼ in. (143.5 × 96.5 × 36.2 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Susan and Lewis Manilow Collection of Chicago Artists, 1993.34
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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- H.C. Westermann, Billy Penn, 1976
- Short An industrial sculpture consists of a square of large silver pipes supported by a platform made of the same kind of pipe.
- H.C. Westermann, W.W.I General, W.W.II General, W.W.III General, 1962
- Short An off-white sculpture has a three-spoked shape embedded by one of its spokes into the base and a rectangular block also embedded on the right. The sculpture is splattered with bright red, yellow, and green.
- Long The sculpture's three components are roughly balanced in size. The base is a thick, elongated oval. From the left end of the base, the propellor-like shape primarily splattered with red and yellow emerges vertically. On the base's right end, the brick-like shape tilts at a slight angle away from the propellor-like form. On this brick-like shape appears the phrase "W.W. 3 General" embossed into its surface, made more visible by the splatters of vivid color.
- H.C. Westermann, He Whore, 1957
- Short A hollow, cylindrical sculpture made of wood with simplified legs and a face. It is sticking its tongue out.