Also seen the same day, down the block from Pace Gallery, in the show at Lennon - Weinberg Gallery, «H.C. Westermann: The Human Condition, Selected Works, 1961 - 1973,» some early
drawings by H.C Westermann (1922 - 1981), done (as I overheard the gallerist explaining) when the artist was in the hospital being treated for testicular cancer — which he survived: his wife had brought him some crayons and paper, and he worked on a group of small
drawings, some in the artist's characteristic graphic,
cartoon -
related style, some in a more abstract and less over-determined mode — after he recovered, these were packed away and never shown until now.
This exhibition assembles materials
related to Roosevelt's abiding love for the Hudson River Valley, including reproductions of childhood
drawings, political
cartoons, and two prized books: his boyhood favorite The Boy Hunters, and his own adult memoir African Game Trails.