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1932 Emporia, Kansas - 2018 Scottsville, New York. Known for: Sculpture, modernist furniture design.
"Wendell Castle, 85, Dies; Blurred the Line Between Furniture and Art," By Sam Roberts, Obituary, The New York Times, January 26, 2018. Wendell Castle, the whimsical designer who coaxed wood into... Read full biography
"Wendell Castle, 85, Dies; Blurred the Line Between Furniture and Art," By Sam Roberts, Obituary, The New York Times, January 26, 2018. Wendell Castle, the whimsical designer who coaxed wood into weird, mind-bending shapes that blurred the boundary between serviceable furniture and fine art, died... Read full biography
"Wendell Castle, 85, Dies; Blurred the Line Between Furniture and Art," By Sam Roberts, Obituary, The New York Times, January 26, 2018. Wendell Castle, the whimsical designer who coaxed wood into weird, mind-bending shapes that blurred the boundary between serviceable furniture and fine art, died on Jan. 20 at his home in Scottsville, N.Y., near Rochester. He was 85. The cause was complications of leukemia, his brother, Wayne, said. “Wendell is the most important postwar American furniture... Read full biography
"Wendell Castle, 85, Dies; Blurred the Line Between Furniture and Art," By Sam Roberts, Obituary, The New York Times, January 26, 2018. Wendell Castle, the whimsical designer who coaxed wood into weird, mind-bending shapes that blurred the boundary between serviceable furniture and fine art, died on Jan. 20 at his home in Scottsville, N.Y., near Rochester. He was 85. The cause was complications of leukemia, his brother, Wayne, said. “Wendell is the most important postwar American furniture designer, by a long shot,” Glenn Adamson, senior research scholar at the Yale Center for British Art and the former director of New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, told Hyperallergic, an online arts forum. Trained as an industrial designer and a... Read full biography
"Wendell Castle, 85, Dies; Blurred the Line Between Furniture and Art," By Sam Roberts, Obituary, The New York Times, January 26, 2018. Wendell Castle, the whimsical designer who coaxed wood into weird, mind-bending shapes that blurred the boundary between serviceable furniture and fine art, died on Jan. 20 at his home in Scottsville, N.Y., near Rochester. He was 85. The cause was complications of leukemia, his brother, Wayne, said. “Wendell is the most important postwar American furniture designer, by a long shot,” Glenn Adamson, senior research scholar at the Yale Center for British Art and the former director of New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, told Hyperallergic, an online arts forum. Trained as an industrial designer and a sculptor, Mr. Castle was after World War II part of what was known as the American studio craft movement. His idiosy... Read full biography
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Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Furniture and/or Cabinet Design and Making
- •Industrial Design
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Humor, Whimsy
Awards/Recognition
- •Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Fellowship
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Married to an Artist
Exhibition of Museum
- •Brooklyn Museum of Art
- •Smithsonian Institution/Museums