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Furniture
Lord Dragonfly Chair
Wendell Castle and William Heyen
Heyen, William
United States
1940
Male
Co-creator
poetry inscribed on bench
Castle, Wendell
United States
1932 - 2018
Male
Co-creator
Wendell Castle and William Heyen
United States
Male
35 x 82 x 24 in. (88.9 x 208.3 x 61 cm)
Cherry
Cherry
2001
2001
2001
2000+, 21st Century, American art, by Rochester artists, chairs, decorative arts, School for American Craftsmen
Furniture
The Memorial Art Gallery commissioned Lord Dragonfly Chair as a bench for public use. It represents the collaboration of two of Rochester’s luminaries, furniture artist Wendell Castle and poet William Heyen (born 1940). Routed into the back and seat are poems from Heyen’s 1981 book Lord Dragonfly: Five Sequences. Heyen made an initial selection of possible poems, from which Castle chose six. To disguise his handwriting, Castle used his left hand to rout these brief untitled poems into the wood.
[Gallery label text, 2008]
Yes, Proper right on back of seat
Wendell Castle
2001.6
item
Memorial Art Gallery
10/23/2001
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2001.6SL1
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