Wendell Castle

Wendell Castle (born 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.

Contents

• Wendell castle creating unicorn family
• Wendell castle remastered
• Permanent collections
• Publications
• References

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, a 1997 Gold Medal from the American Craft Council and a 1998 Artist of the Year Award from the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. He has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2001 he received the Award of Distinction from The Furniture Society.

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

Mount Dora Modernism Museum, FL

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

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

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Denver, CO

Lannan Foundation Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS

Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, NY

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC

Mobile Museum of Fine Arts, Mobile, AL

Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO

The Museum of Arts 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, NY

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

Nordenfieldske Kunstindustrimiseet, Oslo, Norway

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

Renwick Gallery, The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

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, KS

The White House, Washington, DC

PUBLIC/CORPORATE INSTALLATIONS

American Express, New York, NY

Bausch and Lomb, Rochester, NY

Best Company, Richmond, VA

Dupont Center, Orlando, FL

Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Chicago, IL

Forbes Company, New York, NY

Gilman Foundation, New York, 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

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. Cooke, Jr., and Joseph Giovannini. Furniture by Wendell Castle. Hudson Hills Press, 1989.