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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
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Memorial Art Gallery
1/31/2002
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2001.14DI#4
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7/16/2015
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