Wendell Castle

Wendell Castle (b. November 6, 1932 in Emporia, Kansas, USA) is an American furniture artist and a leading figure in American craft. He is often credited with being the father of the art furniture movement.

In 1958 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in industrial design and in 1961 he received a Master of Fine Arts, both from the University of Kansas.

From 1962-1969 he taught at Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsmen, in Rochester, NY and is now an Artist in Residence. In 1980 he opened the Wendell Castle School in Scottsville, NY.

He has garnered a number of awards including a 1994 'Visionaries of the American Craft Movement' award sponsored by the American Craft Museum, and a 1997 Gold Medal from the American Craft Council. He has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

Permanent collections

Museums

*Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
*Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Art Museum Project , Dearborn, MI
*High Museum, Atlanta, GA
*Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn , NY
*Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, N.Y.
*Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
*Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
*Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI.
*Design Museum Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
*Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
*Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
*Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
*Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
*Ithaca College Art Museum, Ithaca, NY
*Lannan Foundation Collection, California
*Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
*Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
*MARIANNA KISTLER BEACH MUSEUM OF ART, Manhattan, KS
*METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NYC
*MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM, Milwalkee, WI
*MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, Minneapolis, MN
*MINT MUSEUM OF CRAFT + DESIGN, Charlotte, N.C.
*MOBILE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Mobile, AL
*MUSEUM OF ART, St. Louis, MO
*THE 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, New York, N.Y
*NORDENFIELDSKE KUNSTINDUSTRIMISEET, Oslo, Norway
*PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PA
*RACINE ART MUSEUM, Racine, WI
*RENWICK GALLERY, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF American Art
*ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BEVIER GALLERY, NY
*SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington DC
*SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART, Lawrence, KS
*TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, Toledo, OH
*UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, ART MUSEUM, Durham. NH
*UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ART GALLERY, Salt Lake City, UT
*VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Richmond, VA
*WICHITA ART MUSEUM, Wichita, KA
*THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, DC

PUBLIC/CORPORATE INSTALLATIONS

*AMERICAN EXPRESS, New York, NY
*BAUSCH AND LOMB, Rochester, N.Y
*BEST COMPANY, Richmond, VA
*DUPONT CENTER, Orlando, FL
*ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA COMPANY, Chicago, IL
*FORBES COMPANY, New York, NY
*GILMAN FOUNDATION, NY, NY
*GREATER ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, NY
*GANNETT CORPORATION, Washington, DC
*HAMMERSON CANADA, INC., Toronto, Canada
*JOHNSON WAX, Racine, WI
*MACCABEES MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE, Detroit, MI
*NATIONSBANK, Atlanta, GA
*PILLAR BRYTON PARTNERS, FL
*ROSECLIFF INVESTMENTS, New York, NY
*STEINWAY COMPANY, Long Island City, NY
*SYDNEY BESTOFF, New Orleans, LA
*WOLFSONIAN FOUNDATION, FL

External links

* Artist official homepage - http://www.wendellcastle.com/
* Wendell Castle Collection - http://www.wendellcastlecollection.com/
* Furniture Society site- http://www.furnituresociety.org/home.shtml

Publications

* Patricia Bayer, editor. "The Fine Art of the Furniture Maker, Conversations with Wendell Castle, Artist, and Penelope Hunter-Steibel, Curator, about Selected Works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art". Rochester, NY; Memorial Gallery of Art of the University of Rochester, 1981.
* Wendell Castle and David Edman, "The Wendell Castle Book of Wood Lamination". VanNostrand Reinhold Publishers, 1980.
*Davira S. Taragin, Edward S. Cook, Jr., and Joseph Giovannini. "Furniture by Wendell Castle". Hudson Hills Press, 1989.