Central America
H. C. Westermann
1973
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and watercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 57 × 76.4 cm (22 1/2 × 30 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintgraphiteinkpen and ink drawingsprints and drawingcolored inkblack inkwatercolorpaper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
Westermann served as a gunner aboard the USS Enterprise during the Second World War and later reenlisted as a Marine during the Korean War. After his discharge in 1952, he began to pursue art, earning his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954. Using art as an outlet to express his concerns with the environment and human folly, the artist created obsessively crafted sculptural tableaux, prints, and drawings. Central America features a self-portrait and could be a commentary on his own artistic “hunt” for the exotic.
