James Charles Castle
Vorlage:Nofootnotes James Charles Castle (September 25, 1899 – 1977) was an American artist and bookmaker born in Garden Valley, Idaho. His works have been collected by major institutions. The Philadelhia Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Castle's work which toured nationally in 2008 and 2009.
Biography
Castle was a self-taught artist who created drawings, assemblage and books throught his lifetime. Castle was born profoundly deaf and it is not known to what extent he could read, write, or use sign language. Castle's artworks were created almost exclusively with found materials such as papers salvaged from common packaging and mail, in addition to food containers of all types. Castle mixed ink using soot from the woodstove and saliva and applied it with tools of his own making, including sharpened sticks, and other found objects. His drawings sensitively depict interiors, buildings, animals, and people based on his family's rural Garden Valley homestead as well as the architecture and landscapes of the places he lived and visited. James Castle's work can be found in major museum collections throughout the U.S. including the Art Institute of Chicago, The American Folk Art Museum, The Boise Art Museum, The High Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. James Castle's work will be featured in a one-person exhibition opening in May 20, 2011 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid and in a group show at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. in 2012.
Further reading
- James Castle, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2010)
- James Castle: A Retrospective, Edited by Ann Percy, Yale University Press (2009)
- James Castle: A Retrospective, by Lynn Cooke, Artforum (December 2009) pgs. 168-171.
- Touched into Being by Stephen Westfall, Art in America, New York, (June 2001) pgs. 5-16.
- American Anthem: Masterworks fro the American Folk Art Museum, by Stacy C. Hollander and Brooke Davis Anderson, American Folk Art Museum in association with Henry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, (2001)
- Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists, by Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr and Julis Weissman, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York (1974)
External links
- Philidephia exhibit, currently at Berkeley Art Museum
- gallery and trailer for James Castle: Portrait of an Artist at Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists
Selected Public Collections
- Art Institute of Chicago, IL
- Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, CA
- Boise Art Museum, ID
- Columbus Museum of Art, OH
- Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem OR
- Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
- High Art Museum, Atlanta, GA
- Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
- Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
- Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
- Portland Art Museum/The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, OR
- Tacoma Art Museum, WA
- The New York Public Library, NY
- Whitney Museum of American Art, NY