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Lord Dragonfly Chair
200135 x 82 x 24 in. (88.9 x 208.3 x 61 cm)
William Heyen
United States Co-creator
Wendell Castle
United States (Emporia, KS, 1932 - 2018, Scottsville, NY) Co-creator
Wendell Castle and William Heyen
United States
Object Type:
Furniture
Medium and Support:
Cherry and polychromed jetulong
Credit Line:
Gift of Marion J. Hawks in honor of Grant Holcomb, the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director, and the Bachman Fund
Accession Number:
2001.6
Location: Not currently on view
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]
[Gallery label text, 2008]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Wendell Castle in Rochester 12/8/2004 - 6/18/2006
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, NY: Rochester Print Co.
- Article Title: What's New in the Collection. Article Scope: Article. MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery Issue Date: Autumn 2001. Page Number: 5
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Article Author: Heyen, William. Article Title: Evening Dawning. Article Scope: Poetry. William Heyen. Lord Dragonfly: Five Sequences. New York, NY: Vanguard Press, 1981. Page Number: 83 no. ix; 86 no. xvii; 87 nos. xix-xx; 89 no. xxv; 92, no. xxxvi
- 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: Catalogue Raisonné entry and reproduction. Emily Evans Eerdmans. Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-2012. New York, NY: Artist Book Foundation, 2014.
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