Wendell Castle
AN IMPORTANT "VERMILLION" DESK AND CHAIR
with two original brass keys executed by the artist
the desk and chair each signed and dated WC 65
vermillion stack laminate, brass
desk: 34 1/2 x 68 x 27 1/4 in. (87.6 x 172.7 x 69.2 cm)
chair: 31 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 25 1/4 in. (80.6 x 54.8 x 64.1 cm)
1965
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Acquired directly from the artist by the original owner, Rochester, New York, 1965
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Designed by Wendell Castle, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, December 3, 1965-January 2, 1966
Wendell Castle, Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof, Marcello Grassmann, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, January 24-February 23, 1966
Furniture by Wendell Castle, travelling retrospective exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, December 5, 1989-February 4, 1990; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, March 9-May 13, 1990; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, June 19-August 19, 1990; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, November 17, 190-January 20, 1991; American Crafts Museum, New York, February 14-April 30, 1991
Helen Giambruni, “Wendell Castle,” Craft Horizons, vol. 28, September-October 1968, p. 30 (for the present lot illustrated)
Laurie Hindson, “Bean Barn Art,” Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, May 9, 1976 (for the present lot illustrated)
Davira S. Taragin, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., and Joseph Giovanni, Furniture by Wendell Castle, New York, 1989, pp. 32-33 (for the present lot illustrated)
“Art,” Michigan Magazine, September 17, 1989 (for the present lot illustrated)
Sally Vallongo, “Wendell Castle Takes an Artistic View of Furniture,” The Blade, Toledo, OH, December 17, 1989 (for the present lot illustrated)
Joan Boram, “His Artistry in Furniture Melds Form and Function,” Observer, Farmington, MI, January 4, 1990 (for the present lot illustrated)
Edward J. Sozanski, “The Table as Artistic Statement,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 1990 (for the present lot illustrated)
Ron Netsky, “Carving Out a Career: Retrospective Surveys Art of Wendell Castle,” Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, December 23, 1990 (for the present lot illustrated)
Shirley M. Friedman, “Famed Artisan Exhibits Furniture: Castle’s Treasury,” Sunday Star Ledger, Newark, NJ, February 17, 1991 (for the present lot illustrated)
Michael Eilperin, “Agenda: Castle’s Craft,” Elle Décor, April 1991, p. 25 (for the present lot illustrated)
Todd Merrill and Julie V. Iovine, ed., Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam, New York, 2008, p. 45 (for the present lot illustrated)
Vladimir Kagan and Beth Dunlop, “Reflections on Wendell Castle,” Modern Magazine, September 20, 2012, n.p. (for the present lot illustrated)
Emily Evans Eerdmans, Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-2012, New York, 2014, pp. 92-93, no. 122 (for the present lot illustrated)