WENDELL CASTLE (1932-2018)

Lot 146
08.06.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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$ 60 000
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ID 976473
Lot 146 | WENDELL CASTLE (1932-2018)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
WENDELL CASTLE (1932-2018)

Unique 'In God We Trust' Chair, 1964

oak, leather

41 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 48 in. (105.4 x 72.4 x 121.9 cm)

signed and dated W.C. 64





Provenance

Wendell Castle and Nancy Jurs, Scottsville, New York

George Lindemann, Miami Beach, Florida, 2006

Phillips, New York, 13 December 2018, lot 22

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

"The New American Craftsmen: First Generation," Craft Horizons, June 1966, p. 19 (present lot illustrated)

A. Gordon, Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms - Works from 1959-1979, New York, 2012, p. 55

E. Evans Eerdmans, Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-2012, New York, 2014, p. 91

W. Castle, A. Castle, and E. Snyderman, Wendell Castle: Scrapbook 1958-1980, New York, 2020, n.p.



Exhibited

New York, New York, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, The American Craftsman, May-September 1964Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery, Phillips Andover Academy, Craftsmen Beyond New England, November-December 1964

Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 1965 Rochester- Finger Lakes Exhibition, May-June 1965
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