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A TABLE, 1978
Details
WENDELL CASTLE (1932-2018)
A TABLE, 1978
mahogany, the underside signed W. CASTLE 78
33 ¾ in. (85.7 cm.) high, 39 ½ in. (100.3 cm.) wide, 25 ¼ in. (64.1 cm.) deep
A TABLE, 1978
mahogany, the underside signed W. CASTLE 78
33 ¾ in. (85.7 cm.) high, 39 ½ in. (100.3 cm.) wide, 25 ¼ in. (64.1 cm.) deep
Provenance
Frederick Gallery, Washington, DC
Private Collection, Merion Station, PA
Private Collection, Merion Station, PA
Literature
Illusions, Carl Solway Gallery, New York, NY, May 9 - June 3, 1978
Harwood Furniture and Objects: Fall '79, Richard Kagan Studio & Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, September 8-30, 1979
American Contemporary Works in Wood '85, The Dairy Barn Gallery, Southwestern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, September 12-October 20, 1985
Wendell Castle: Sculpture, Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, New York, NY, January 3-28, 1981
Woodworking Invitational Exhibition, Montgomery College Art Department, Rockville, MD, March 21- April 15, 1983
Harwood Furniture and Objects: Fall '79, Richard Kagan Studio & Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, September 8-30, 1979
American Contemporary Works in Wood '85, The Dairy Barn Gallery, Southwestern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, September 12-October 20, 1985
Wendell Castle: Sculpture, Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, New York, NY, January 3-28, 1981
Woodworking Invitational Exhibition, Montgomery College Art Department, Rockville, MD, March 21- April 15, 1983
Exhibited
Urbane Chapman, "Wendell Castle Tries Elegance...and Pushes to the Limits of Craftsmanship," Fine Woodworking (September/October 1983).
Sally Eauclaire, "Wendell Castle: Wood, Form, and Space," Craft Horizons (December 1978).
Bill Ferguson, "Furniture Fantastique: Art Furniture, Designer Wendell Castel's Sought-After Creations Defy Traditional Definitions," Syracuse Herald-Journal (Syracuse, NY), April 25, 1988.
Randolph Picht, "A Woodworking Artist Who Enjoys Creating the Unusual," Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA), June 21 1988.
Sally Eauclaire, "Wendell Castle: Wood, Form, and Space," Craft Horizons (December 1978).
Bill Ferguson, "Furniture Fantastique: Art Furniture, Designer Wendell Castel's Sought-After Creations Defy Traditional Definitions," Syracuse Herald-Journal (Syracuse, NY), April 25, 1988.
Randolph Picht, "A Woodworking Artist Who Enjoys Creating the Unusual," Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA), June 21 1988.
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