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Wendell Castle

(American, 1932–2018)

Wendell Castle

Foyer Console Table, USA

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Wendell Castle

Tri-Hard Floor Lamp, USA, 1993

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Wendell Castle

Table Lamp I, 1993

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Wendell Castle

Wendell Castle, Column Night Vision, USA, 1988

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Biography

Timeline

1932: Born in Emporia, KS
1958: BFA, University of Kansas, Industrial Design
1961: MFA, University of Kansas, Sculpture
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2012 - 2013: Wendell Castle: A New Environment. Friedman Benda, New York, NY (solo)
: Wendell Castle: Volumes and Voids. Barry Friedman, New York, NY (solo)
: Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms – Works from 1959-79. The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT (solo)
: Wendell Castle: Forms within Forms, the 21st Century. Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY (solo)
2011 - 2012: Wendell Castle: Best Leg Forward. Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery. London, UK (solo)
: Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design. Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
: The Abstract Forms of Pablo Picasso and Wendell Castle. Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011: Wendell Castle in the 21st Century. Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO (solo)
2010: Wendell Castle. Rockin’. Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY (solo)
: The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series. Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
: Sotheby's at Sudeley Castle: A Selling Exhibition. Cheltenham, UK. May 28 - August 1, 2010
: Wendell Castle: About Time. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (solo)
: Wendell Castle. Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2008: New Work by Wendell Castle: Works on Paper by Chuck Close. Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
: Wendell Castle. New Work. Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY (solo)
2007 - 2009: Craft in America: Expanding Traditions. Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA
2007: Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Not Furniture: XXI Design. Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006: Pop Art and Its Affinities. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2005: Wendell Castle: What Pluck! Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, NY (solo)
: Recent Acquisitions. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
: Good Heart. Gerald Peters Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
2004 - 2006: Wendell Castle in Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (solo)
2004 - 2005: Black & White. Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
: Wendell Castle: Auto Plastic. R 20th Century, New York, NY (solo)
: Right at Home: American Studio Furniture. Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
: The Perfect Collection: A Shared Vision of Contemporary Craft. The Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
: The White House Collection of American Crafts. Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, GA
: Summer Group Show. Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2004: Outrageous Home. The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
2003: Wendell Castle: Seeing in the Dark. Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
: Triennial 9 Form & Contents: Corporal Identity-Body Language. Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
: Teasing the Eye: Crafted Illusions. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
: Significant Objects from the Modern Design Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Corporal Identity-Body Language. Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
: The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Kanazawa World Craft Forum 2003. Kanazawa, Japan
2002: Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe L'Oeil Painting. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: Embellished with Gold. Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AK
: Contemporary Craft in the Museum of Fine Arts. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
: Wendell Castle. Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY (solo)
2001: Objects for Use: Handmade by Design. American Craft Museum, New York, NY
2000: Furniture by Wendell Castle. Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI (solo)
1999: Recent Acquisitions. Decorative Arts. Traveling exhibition: Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, France; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, Canada; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
1997: Renwick at 25. Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
: Celebrating American Craft. The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Designed for Delight. Alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Canada; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Krakow, Poland; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1996 - 1997: Four Decades of Discovery: The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum. American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1996: New Furniture: Beyond Form and Function. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
: Wendell Castle and Nancy Jurs: A Marriage of Life and Art. Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
: One Man Exhibit. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (solo)
1995 - 1999: The White House Collection of American Crafts. Traveling exhibition: Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
: The Handmade: shifting paradigms. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Japan
: Recent Acquisitions of Furniture. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1995 - 1996: Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft. Traveling exhibition: American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: One-Man Exhibit. Chang Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (solo)
: Art Furniture by Wendell Castle. Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL (solo)
: Wendell Castle: Cabinets 1985 – 1995. A Retrospective Exhibition. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Please Be Seated: Masters of the Art of Seating. The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL
1995: Art for Everyday. Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA
: Works by Wendell Castle. Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (solo)
1994: Ambiguous Objecthood: New Furniture and Drawings by Wendell Castle. Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA (solo)
: Wendell Castle: Coming to Grips. Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO (solo)
: New Work by Wendell Castle. Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (solo)
: The Object of Pop. Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1993: Furniture Fantasy. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
: Wendell Castle: Environmental Works. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Wendell Castle: Select Early Works (1971-75). Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1992: Craft Today: USA. The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1991 - 1993: Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was. Traveling exhibition: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, Canada; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas, City, MO; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Masterworks. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
: Angel Chairs: New Work by Wendell Castle. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1991: 1991 Kanazawa Gran-Prix Arts & Crafts Competition. Kanazawa Culture Hall Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan
1989 - 1992: Crafted Today USA. Traveling exhibition: The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Sala Sant Jaume de la Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain; The Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; Eommex Cultural Center-Zapperion, Athens, Greece; American Haus, Berlin, Germany; St. Peter’s Abbey, Ghent, Belgium; The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway; Ataturk Cultural Center, Ankara, Turkey; Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia; Musée des Art Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; Museum Für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Taidetollisuusmustoi, Helsinki, Finland; Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, France
1989 - 1991: Furniture of Wendell Castle. Traveling retrospective exhibit: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (solo)
1989: Artful Objects: Recent American Crafts. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
: Wendell Castle: New Work. Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
: Clockwork! List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
: The World of Art, Today. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1988: Wendell Castle: A Decade 1977-1987. Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1987 - 1991: The Eloquent Object: the Evolution of American Art in Craft Media since 1945. Traveling exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1987: New Work: Wendell Castle, Garry Knox Bennet, Fred Baier. Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY
: ________. A Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
1986 - 1988: Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. Traveling exhibition: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; The Denver Art Museum; American Craft Museum, Denver, CO
: Wendell Castle. Works in Plastic 1968-1970. 20th Century Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1986: Time and Defiance of Gravity: Recent Works by Wendell Castle. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (solo)
: ________. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (solo)
: Wendell Castle. Sculpture? Furniture? The Vanishing Line, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1985 - 1987: Material Evidence, New Color Techniques in Handmade Furniture. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1985 - 1986: Masterpieces of Time. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1985: ________. Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
: High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1983: Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design. Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1980: Sitting in Style. The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
: ________.The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Furniture As Art II. Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1979 - 1980: New Handmade Furniture. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1979: Paley/Castle. Wildenhain, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
: Drawing Show. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1977: American Crafts 1977/ The Philadelphia Craft Show. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1976: American Crafts '76, an Aesthetic View. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1975 - 1976: Craft Multiplies. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1973 - 1974: Innovations: Contemporary Home Environs. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1972: Woodenworks: Furniture Objects by Five Contemporary Craftsmen. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
: ________. Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
: Environments for Contemplation. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1970: Attitudes. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1969 - 1972: Objects USA: The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts. Traveling exhibition: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinatti, OH; St. Paul Art Center, Saint Paul, MN; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1969: The Furniture of Wendell Castle. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (solo)
: State University of New York, Cortland, NY (solo)
1966: Wendell Castle, Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof, Marcello Grassman. Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Fantasy Furniture. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
: Internationals Kunsthandwerk, 1966. Stuttgart, Germany
1965 - 1966: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (solo)
1964: United States of America Section at the 13th Triennale. Milan, Italy
: The American Craftsman. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1962: 1962 Young Americans. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
: Inaugural Show. Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH (solo)
: Louisville Art Association, Louisville, KY (solo)
: Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (solo)
: Scudder Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (solo)

Public Collections

: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
: Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
: Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
: Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Atlanta High Museum, Atlanta, GA
: Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
: Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
: Gilman Foundation, New York, NY
: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
: DuPont Center, Orlando, FL
: Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
: Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
: White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington D.C.
: Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
: Wolfsonian Foundation, Miami Beach, FL
: Monroe County-Greater Rochester International Airport, Rochester, NY
: Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
: Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
: Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: Museum of Modern Art, Design Collection, New York, NY
: Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
: Design Museum Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Wendell Castle

(American, 1932–2018)

Wendell Castle

Wendell Castle

Wendell Castle

Wendell Castle

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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