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Wendell Castle Biography
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Born in Emporia, Kansas
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1958 |
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University of Kansas, Industrial Design BFA
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1961 |
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University of Kansas, Sculpture MFA
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Lives and works in New York
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2012 - 2013
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Wendell Castle: A New Environment. Friedman Benda, New York, NY (solo)
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2012 - 2013
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Wendell Castle: Volumes and Voids. Barry Friedman, New York, NY (solo)
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2012 - 2013
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Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms – Works from 1959-79. The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT (solo)
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2012 - 2013
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Wendell Castle: Forms within Forms, the 21st Century. Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY (solo)
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2011 - 2012
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Wendell Castle: Best Leg Forward. Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery. London, UK (solo)
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2011 - 2012
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Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design. Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
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2011 - 2012
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The Abstract Forms of Pablo Picasso and Wendell Castle. Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2011
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Wendell Castle in the 21st Century. Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO (solo)
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2010
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Wendell Castle. Rockin’. Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY (solo)
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2010
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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series. Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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2010
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Sotheby's at Sudeley Castle: A Selling Exhibition. Cheltenham, UK. May 28 - August 1, 2010
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2007 - 2009
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Craft in America: Expanding Traditions. Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA
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2008
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New Work by Wendell Castle: Works on Paper by Chuck Close. Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2008
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Wendell Castle. New Work. Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY (solo)
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2008
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Wendell Castle. Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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2008
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Wendell Castle: About Time. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (solo)
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2007
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Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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2007
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Not Furniture: XXI Design. Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2006
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Pop Art and Its Affinities. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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2004 - 2006
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Wendell Castle in Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (solo)
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2005
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Wendell Castle: What Pluck! Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, NY (solo)
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2005
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Recent Acquisitions. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
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2005
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Good Heart. Gerald Peters Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
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2004 - 2005
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Black & White. Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
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2004
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Outrageous Home. The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
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2004
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The White House Collection of American Crafts. Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, GA
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2004
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Summer Group Show. Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
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Right at Home: American Studio Furniture. Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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2004
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The Perfect Collection: A Shared Vision of Contemporary Craft. The Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
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2004
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Wendell Castle: Auto Plastic. R 20th Century, New York, NY (solo)
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2003
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Wendell Castle: Seeing in the Dark. Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
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2003
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Triennial 9 Form & Contents: Corporal Identity-Body Language. Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
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2003
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Teasing the Eye: Crafted Illusions. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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2003
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Significant Objects from the Modern Design Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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2003
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Corporal Identity-Body Language. Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
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2003
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The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940-1990. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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2003
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Kanazawa World Craft Forum 2003. Kanazawa, Japan
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2002
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Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe L'Oeil Painting. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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2002
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Embellished with Gold. Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AK
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2001
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Objects for Use: Handmade by Design. American Craft Museum, New York, NY
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2001
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Contemporary Craft in the Museum of Fine Arts. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
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2001
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Wendell Castle. Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY (solo)
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2000
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Furniture by Wendell Castle. Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI (solo)
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1999
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Recent Acquisitions. Decorative Arts. Traveling exhibition: Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, France; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, Canada; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
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1995 - 1999
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The White House Collection of American Crafts. Traveling exhibition: Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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1995 - 1999
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The Handmade: shifting paradigms. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Japan
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1995 - 1999
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Recent Acquisitions of Furniture. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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1997
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Renwick at 25. Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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1997
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Celebrating American Craft. The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
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1997
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Designed for Delight. Alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Canada; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Krakow, Poland; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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1996 - 1997
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Four Decades of Discovery: The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum. American Craft Museum, New York, NY
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1996
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New Furniture: Beyond Form and Function. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
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1996
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Wendell Castle and Nancy Jurs: A Marriage of Life and Art. Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
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1996
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One Man Exhibit. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (solo)
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1995 - 1996
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Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft. Traveling exhibition: American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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1995
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Art for Everyday. Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA
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1995
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Please Be Seated: Masters of the Art of Seating. The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL
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1995
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Works by Wendell Castle. Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (solo)
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1995
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Art Furniture by Wendell Castle. Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL (solo)
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1995
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One-Man Exhibit. Chang Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (solo)
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1995
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Wendell Castle: Cabinets 1985 – 1995. A Retrospective Exhibition. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1994
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Ambiguous Objecthood: New Furniture and Drawings by Wendell Castle. Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA (solo)
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1994
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Wendell Castle: Coming to Grips. Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO (solo)
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1994
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New Work by Wendell Castle. Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (solo)
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1994
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The Object of Pop. Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
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1993
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Furniture Fantasy. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
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1993
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Wendell Castle: Environmental Works. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1993
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Wendell Castle: Select Early Works (1971-75). Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1991 - 1993
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Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was. Traveling exhibition: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, Canada; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas, City, MO; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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1992
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Craft Today: USA. The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
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1989 - 1992
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Crafted Today USA. Traveling exhibition: The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Sala Sant Jaume de la Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain; The Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; Eommex Cultural Center-Zapperion, Athens, Greece; American Haus, Berlin, Germany; St. Peter’s Abbey, Ghent, Belgium; The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway; Ataturk Cultural Center, Ankara, Turkey; Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia; Musée des Art Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; Museum Für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Taidetollisuusmustoi, Helsinki, Finland; Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, France
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1991
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1991 Kanazawa Gran-Prix Arts & Crafts Competition. Kanazawa Culture Hall Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan
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1991
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Masterworks. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
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1991
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Angel Chairs: New Work by Wendell Castle. Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1989 - 1991
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Furniture of Wendell Castle. Traveling retrospective exhibit: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (solo)
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1987 - 1991
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The Eloquent Object: the Evolution of American Art in Craft Media since 1945. Traveling exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
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1989
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Artful Objects: Recent American Crafts. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
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1989
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Wendell Castle: New Work. Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
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1988
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Wendell Castle: A Decade 1977-1987. Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1988
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Clockwork! List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
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1988
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The World of Art, Today. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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1986 - 1988
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Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. Traveling exhibition: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; The Denver Art Museum; American Craft Museum, Denver, CO
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1987
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New Work: Wendell Castle, Garry Knox Bennet, Fred Baier. Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY
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1987
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________. A Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
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1985 - 1987
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Material Evidence, New Color Techniques in Handmade Furniture. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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1986
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Time and Defiance of Gravity: Recent Works by Wendell Castle. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (solo)
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1986
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________. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (solo)
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1986
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Wendell Castle. Works in Plastic 1968-1970. 20th Century Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
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1986
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Wendell Castle. Sculpture? Furniture? The Vanishing Line, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1985 - 1986
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Masterpieces of Time. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1985
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________. Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
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1985
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High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1983
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Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design. Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
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1980
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Sitting in Style. The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
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1980
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________.The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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1980
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Furniture As Art II. Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1979 - 1980
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New Handmade Furniture. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
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1979
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Paley/Castle. Wildenhain, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
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1977
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American Crafts 1977/ The Philadelphia Craft Show. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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1977
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Drawing Show. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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1976
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American Crafts '76, an Aesthetic View. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
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1975 - 1976
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Craft Multiplies. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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1973 - 1974
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Innovations: Contemporary Home Environs. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
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1972
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Woodenworks: Furniture Objects by Five Contemporary Craftsmen. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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1972
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________. Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
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1969 - 1972
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Objects USA: The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts. Traveling exhibition: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinatti, OH; St. Paul Art Center, Saint Paul, MN; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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1970
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Attitudes. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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1970
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Environments for Contemplation. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
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1969
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The Furniture of Wendell Castle. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (solo)
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1969
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State University of New York, Cortland, NY (solo)
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1966
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Wendell Castle, Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof, Marcello Grassman. Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1966
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Fantasy Furniture. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
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1966
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Internationals Kunsthandwerk, 1966. Stuttgart, Germany
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1965 - 1966
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Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (solo)
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1964
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United States of America Section at the 13th Triennale. Milan, Italy
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1964
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The American Craftsman. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
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1962
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1962 Young Americans. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
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1962
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Inaugural Show. Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH (solo)
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1962
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Louisville Art Association, Louisville, KY (solo)
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1962
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Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (solo)
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1962
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Scudder Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (solo)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
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Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
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White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington D.C.
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Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
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Wolfsonian Foundation, Miami Beach, FL
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Monroe County-Greater Rochester International Airport, Rochester, NY
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Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
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Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
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Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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Museum of Modern Art, Design Collection, New York, NY
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Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
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Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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DuPont Center, Orlando, FL
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Gilman Foundation, New York, NY
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Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
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Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
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Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
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Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Atlanta High Museum, Atlanta, GA
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Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
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Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
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Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
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Design Museum Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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