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Sculpture
Chair Standing on Its Head
Chair Standing on its Head
Wendell Castle, (Emporia, KS, 1932 - 2018, Scottsville, NY)
Castle, Wendell
United States
1932 - 2018
Male
43 x 31 x 33 in. (109.2 x 78.7 x 83.8 cm)
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Maple and jelutong
Maple and jelutong
2001
2001
2001
20th century, by Rochester artists, chairs, School for American Craftsmen, sculpture
Sculpture
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]
on the right side of chair seat
Wendell Castle
2001.14
item
Memorial Art Gallery
1/31/2002
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2001.14DI#4
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7/16/2015
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Furniture
Last Judgment
Wendell Castle, (Emporia, KS, 1932 - 2018, Scottsville, NY)
Castle, Wendell
United States
1932 - 2018
Male
Castle, Wendell
United States
1932 - 2018
Male
84 x 32 x 26 in. (213.4 x 81.3 x 66 cm)
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overall
2003
2003
2003
56.2004L
School for American Craftsmen
Furniture
Wendell Castle, whose studio is in Scottsville, New York, is internationally renowned for his innovative and sculptural approach to furniture design.
In Rochester, Castle has been an influential teacher through his affiliations with a number of schools, including the State University of New York at Brockport and Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts, where he currently holds the position of artist-in-residence.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Front toward proper right side of piece, below door
2005.263
item
Memorial Art Gallery
11/18/2004
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2005.263D2
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Front
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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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4 x 5
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4 x 5
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2001.6SL1
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2 x 2
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detail- center seat
2 x 2
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detail-seat-right
2 x 2
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Front
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