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My Own Executioner

H. C. Westermann American, 1922 - 1981
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About the Artwork

My Own Executioner

1957

H. C. Westermann

1922 - 1981

American

Unknown

Bone, brass, lead, and pine

Overall: 19 × 4 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (48.3 × 11.4 × 8.9 cm)

Sculpture

Contemporary Art after 1950

Founders Society Purchase, Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund and Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund

1989.51

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Markings

Signed with ink on bottom left: H.C. Westermann

Inscribed, titled, dated, bottom left: My Own Executioner | 1957 Inscribed with ink on bottom right: or--indifference to my own creator Incised on bone: ME I [tic-tac-toe board with two o's in upper corners and one x in the lower right corner]

Provenance

(Allan Frumklin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA). Noah Goldowsky and Richard Bellamy (New York, New York, USA). Alan and Dorothy Press (Chicago, Illinois, USA). (Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, New York, USA) 1989-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Adrian, Dennis. "Some Notes on H. C. Westermann." Art International 7, no. 2 (February 1963): 52.

Frumkin, Allan. "Westermann in Chicago." Art Scene (February 1969): 14.

Johnson, Ken. "H. C. Westermann at Lennon, Weinberg." Art in America 76, no. 12 (December 1988): 150.

Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. H. C. Westermann: Sculpture and Drawing. New York, 1988, (ill.).

King, David. H. C. Westermann: West. Richmond, CA, 1997, p. 20.

Rooks, Michael and Lynne Warren. H. C. Westermann: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonne of Objects. New York, 2001, p. 224 (bw ill.), pp. 277, 344, 365, 368.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

H. C. Westermann, My Own Executioner, 1957, bone, brass, lead, and pine. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund and Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund, 1989.51.

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