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Table with Tablecloth
197832 1/2 x 23 x 21 3/4 in. (82.6 x 58.4 x 55.2 cm)
Wendell Castle
United States (Emporia, KS, 1932 - 2018, Scottsville, NY)
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Mahogany
Credit Line:
General Acquisitions Fund
Accession Number:
1978.58
Location: Not currently on view
Wendell Castle’s art delights and surprises us, and this example is no exception. As if made for a topsy-turvy world, the stick-figure chair stands on a tromp-l’oeil (French for “fool the eye”) pillow that seems to be soft and filled with feathers. At the same time, we can see the wood’s grain and joints and know that it is a hard surface.
Wendell Castle is an internationally acclaimed artist who is based in nearby Scottsville, New York. In his more than fifty-year career, he has continued to explore the possibilities inherent in the medium of wood, and to expand the conceptual realities that can be expressed with it.
[Summer 2015]
Wendell Castle is an internationally acclaimed artist who is based in nearby Scottsville, New York. In his more than fifty-year career, he has continued to explore the possibilities inherent in the medium of wood, and to expand the conceptual realities that can be expressed with it.
[Summer 2015]
Marks
Artist's signature, underside: W Castle 78
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Paley/Castle/Wildenhain Memorial Art Gallery 8/24/1979 - 10/7/1979
- Wendell Castle in Rochester 12/8/2004 - 6/18/2006
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: New Shows: Paley/Castle/Wildenhain. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 45, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: September 1979.
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Grant Holcomb, III. Wendell Castle in Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2005.
- Article Title: Art as Furniture. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. University of Rochester: the 2004-2005 year. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester, 2005. Page Number: 9
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Paley/Castle/Wildenhain. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1979.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Barbaralee Diamonstein. Handmade in America: Conversations with Fourteen Craftmasters. New York, NY: Abrams, 1983.
- Denise Domergue. Artists Design Furniture. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
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