Download PDF (292 K)WENDELL CASTLE
1961
University of Kansas, Sculpture MFA
1958
University of Kansas, Industrial Design BFA
1932
Born in Emporia, Kansas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Wendell Castle. Carpenters Workshop Gallery. London, UK
(upcoming)
Wendell Castle in the 21st Century. Belger Arts Center, Kansas City,
MO
2010
Wendell Castle. Rockin.’ Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY
2008
Wendell Castle. New Work. Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY
2006-04
Wendell Castle in Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2004
Wendell Castle: Auto Plastic. R20th Century, New York, NY
2003
Wendell Castle: Seeing in the Dark. Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001
Wendell Castle. Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY
2000
Furniture by Wendell Castle. Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI
1996
One Man Exhibit. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
1995
Works by Wendell Castle. Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Art Furniture by Wendell Castle. Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
One-Man Exhibit. Chang Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Wendell Castle: Cabinets 1985 – 1995. A Retrospective Exhibition. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Ambiguous Objecthood: New Furniture and Drawings by Wendell Castle. Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Wendell Castle: Coming to Grips. Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
New Work by Wendell Castle. Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
1993
Wendell Castle: Environmental Works. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
Wendell Castle: Select Early Works (1971-75). Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Angel Chairs: New Work by Wendell Castle. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
1991-89
Furniture of Wendell Castle. Traveling retrospective exhibit: Detroit Institute of Arts; American Craft Museum; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Delaware Art Museum; Memorial Art Gallery
1989
Wendell Castle: New Work. Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988
Wendell Castle: A Decade 1977-1987. Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Time and Defiance of Gravity: Recent Works by Wendell Castle. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
________. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Wendell Castle. Works in Plastic. 1968-1970, 20th Century Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Wendell Castle. Sculpture? Furniture? The Vanishing Line, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1986-85
Masterpieces of Time. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1985
________. Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
1980
Furniture As Art II. Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1969
The Furniture of Wendell Castle. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
State University of New York, Cortland, NY
1966-65
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
1962
Inaugural Show. Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH
Louisville Art Association, Louisville, KY
Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Scudder Gallery, University of New Hampshire
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012-2011
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
2010
The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series. Everson Museum of
Art, Syracuse, NY
2009-07
Craft in America: Expanding Traditions. Craft in America, Los
Angeles, CA
2008
New Work by Wendell Castle: Works on Paper by Chuck Close. Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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
Recent Acquisitions. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Good Heart. Gerald Peters Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
2005-04
Black & White. Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
2004
Outrageous Home. The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
The White House Collection of American Crafts. Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, GA
Summer Group Show. Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
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
2003
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
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
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
2001
Objects for Use: Handmade by Design. American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Contemporary Craft in the Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1999
Recent Acquisitions. Decorative Arts. Traveling exhibition: Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, France; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany; J.B. Speed Museum; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Cincinnati Art Museum; Canadian Museum of Civilization; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts
1999-95
The White House Collection of American Crafts. Traveling exhibition: Mint Museum; Delaware Art Museum; Tampa Museum of Art; Colby College Museum of Art; Art Museum of Western Virginia; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; American Craft Museum; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Handmade: shifting paradigms. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Recent Acquisitions of Furniture. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1997
Renwick at 25. Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Celebrating American Craft. The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1997-96
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
1996-95
Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft. Traveling exhibition: American Craft Museum; Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Madison Art Center; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1995
Art for Everyday. Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA
Please Be Seated: Masters of the Art of Seating. The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL
1994
The Object of Pop. Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Furniture Fantasy. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1993-91
Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was. Traveling exhibition: Canadian Museum of Civilization; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Baltimore Museum of Art; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1992
Craft Today: USA. The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1992-89
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
1991
1991 Kanazawa Gran-Prix Arts & Crafts Competition. Kanazawa Culture Hall Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan
Masterworks, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
1991-87
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; Orlando Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Oakland Museum
1989
Artful Objects: Recent American Crafts. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
1988
Clockwork! List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
1988-86
Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. Traveling exhibition: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; J.B. Speed Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Denver Art Museum; American Craft Museum)
1988, The World of Art, Today. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1987
New Work: Wendell Castle, Garry Knox Bennet, Fred Baier. Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY
________. A Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
1987-85
Material Evidence, New Color Techniques in Handmade Furniture. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
1985
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
1980-79
New Handmade Furniture. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1979
Paley/Castle. Wildenhain, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
1977
American Crafts 1977/ The Philadelphia Craft Show. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Drawing Show, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1976
American Crafts '76. an Aesthetic View, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1976-75
Craft Multiplies. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.1974-73
1974-73
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
1972-69
Objects USA: The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts. Traveling exhibition: Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of Rochester; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; St. Paul Art Center; Seattle Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1970
Attitudes. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Environments for Contemplation. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
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
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
AWARDS
2007
Lifetime Achievement Award, Brooklyn Museum of Art
2003
Outstanding Achievement Award. The National Association of Schools of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Distinguished Achievement Award. University of Kansas School of Fine Arts, Manhattan, KS
1999
Master of the Medium, The James Renwick Alliance of The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1994
Visionaries of the American Craft Movement, American Craft Museum.
1988
Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1979
Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Sculptor/Designer, Maryland Institute of Art
1976-75, 73
National Endowment for the Arts Grant(s)
1972
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
American Express, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Atlanta High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Design Museum Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
DuPont Center, Orlando, FL
Forbes Company, New York, NY
Gannett Corporation, Washington D.C.
Gilman Foundation, New York, 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
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
Nations Bank, Atlanta, GA
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Steinway Company, Long Island City, NY
Sydney Bestoff, New Orleans, LA
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
LITERATURE
Albrecht, Donald. Auto Plastic: Wendell Castle. New York: R20th Century, 2005.
Bates, Elizabeth Bidwell and Jonathan Fairbanks. American Furniture, 1620 to the Present. New York: Richard Marek Publishing, 1987.
Busch, Akiko and Paul J. Smith. Objects for Use: Handmade by Design. New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., 2001.
Conway, Patricia. Art for Everyday. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1990.
Conway, Patricia and Robert Jensen. Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1982.
Danto, Arthur C. The Endowed Chair. New York: Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 1992.
Domergue, Denise. Artists Design Furniture. New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
Falino, Jeannie. Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design. New York: Museum of Art & Design, 2011.
Fiell, Charlotte and Peter. Design and the 20th Century. Germany: Taschen, 1999.
________. 1,000 Chairs. Germany: Taschen, 1997.
Garner, Philippe. Contemporary Decorative Arts. England: Phaidon Press, Ltd., 1980.
Giovanni, Joseph and Davira S. Taragin. Furniture by Wendell Castle. Edited by Edward S. Cooke. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts. Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, 1989.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. New Furniture: Beyond Form and Function. Edited by Sara Benson. New York: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Herman, Lloyd and Matthew Kangas. Tales and Traditions: Storytelling in Twentieth Century American Craft. Missouri: Craft Alliance, 1993.
Joseph, Peter T. and Matthew Kangas. Wendell Castle: Environmental Works. New York: Peter Joseph Gallery, 1993.
Kangas, Matthew. Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft. New York: American Craft Museum, 1995.
Manhart, Marcia and Tom. The Eloquent Object: The Evolution of American Art in Craft Media Since 1945. Oklahoma: The Tulsa Museum of Art, 1987.
Miller, R. Craig. Modern Design in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., 1991.
Milwaukee Art Museum. 1988, The World of Art, Today. Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988.
Monroe, Michael W. The White House Collection of American Crafts. New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., 1995.
Newman, Thelma R. Plastics as Sculptures. Pennsylvania: Chilton Press, 1974.
Nordess, Lee. Objects USA. New York: Viking Press, 1970.
diNoto, Andrea. Art Plastic: Designed for Living. New York: Abeville Press, 1984.
Simpson, Tommy. Hand and Home: The Homes of American Craftsmen. Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 1994.
Smith, Edward Lucie. Artoday. England: Phaidon, 1995.
________. American Art Now. New York: William Morrow Publishers, 1985.
________. Art in the Seventies. New York: Cornell University Press, 1980.
________. Furniture: A Concise History. England: Oxford University Press, 1979.
________ and Paul Smith. Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. England: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1986.
________. Recent Acquisitions to Inaugurate New Space at Brooklyn Museum.
Antiques and the Arts Weekly, February 25, 2011.
Smith, Paul. Introduction to Craft Today USA, by The American Craft Council and Museum. New York: The American Craft Council and Museum, 1989.
Williams, Gerry, ed. Apprenticeship in Craft. New Hampshire: Daniel Clark Books, 1981.