James Castle: A Retrospective

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BOOKJames Castle: A Retrospective

Ann Percy (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00328

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James Castle (1899–1977) never learned to speak, read, or write—and left his native state of Idaho only once—and yet he created a wide range of extraordinary works that resonate with much of 20th-century art. This book offers the first critical exploration of the many creative genres of this self-taught artist, who first came to notice in the 1950s and 1960s but has only recently been recognized by major museums.

This book examines Castle’s drawings, color-wash works, idiosyncratic cardboard and paper constructions, and word, sign, and symbol pieces. As a child he developed his favorite medium and method of working, mixing stove soot with saliva and applying this “ink” with sharpened sticks and cotton wads to such found materials as product packaging and discarded paper. These everyday materials have given his works a singular, immediate, and appealing natural quality.

This engaging volume considers Castle’s remarkable art from a variety of perspectives, examining his life, modes of depiction, working methods and materials, and the “visual poetry” of his text works.

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Ann Percy (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Print publication date November 2008 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300137309

EISBN 9780300272192

Illustrations 434

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Map of Garden Valley, Idaho, birthplace of James Castle
Barn or shed interior with large central pole and objects on shelves
Farmscape with fork in road
Road near the former Castle property in Garden Valley, Idaho
Purple car, house, and two trees
Teacup house
STILL SMALL VOICE
Girl in green dress with collaged printed-paper legs
Photo album
Some of Castle's hand-made books
Garden Valley outbuilding with ladder
Farmscape, view from road
Garden Valley house with outside staircase
Room with view outdoors through adjacent room
Garden Valley mailroom with shelves and counter
Placerville, Idaho
Farmscape with three sheds, freestanding door, and totems
Farmscape with large central plank totem
Farmscape with plank totems
Pioneerville, Idaho
Farmscape with white house, tumbleweed bushes, and tree totems
Untitled (Square-headed man sitting on porch)
Farmscape, view from porch with objects on railing
James Castle at about age eight, Garden Valley, Idaho
James Castle at about age eight, in front of fenced pasture (after family photo)
Farmscape with corral fences and plank totems
Garden Valley, Idaho, view from the old Castle property
Farmscape with buggy and totems
Barn interior, Garden Valley, Idaho
Barn or shed interior with totems and round objects on floor
Barn or shed interior with totems and round objects on floor, verso showing American Beauty egg noodles carton used as support
Girl in green dress with yellow hair
Man in FEEDS coat
Boy in tan coat and hat with blue word-fragment face
Untitled (Girl in gray dress with collaged printed paper bicycle-wheel head)
Untitled (Chair)
The Main Building and boys' dormitory of the Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, Gooding
The Main Building of the Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, from the back
Teacher and students in a classroom, Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind
Students and teachers at the Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, Gooding
Gooding school classroom
Gooding school interior with staircase
Gooding school classroom
Gooding school interior
Gooding school interior with alcoves
Picture-head boy and hand-face girl in rectangles
Armless figure with hat and picture face in farmscape
Four figures with collaged printed-paper heads in rectangles
Gooding school classrooms
WALSH'S NEW PRIMARY ARITHMETIC
One-eyed, armless figure with earmuff ears
Picture-head man
Wagon in landscape
Book-head man
House with front porch
Vowel sounds chart used at the Idaho State School for the Deaf and the Blind, Gooding
[PR]INCE ALBER[T]
Gooding school classrooms
House at Star, Idaho
Farmscape with giant tree with tunnel
Farmscape with two giant trees, one with tunnel
Main Street, Star, Idaho
Main Street, Boise, Idaho
Farmscape with totems and giant tree
Two unidentified forms in landscape
Landscape with fences and three giant trees
Landscape with row of small buildings and totem
Blue jacket and pants
Rocking chair
Chair-head man with chair legs
Square-head boy in belted jacket and knickers
Two jackets leaning to right
Boy with open jacket and knickers, seen from back
Girl in red coat and boater hat
Five jackets laid out
Girl in red coat and boater hat
Girl with open red coat and boater hat, seen from back
Figure in red coat and brown hat
Dresser-head man in tan coat and blue hat
Dresser-head man and woman and jackets on porch
Red dresser
Red jacket with white buttons
Gray coat over gray vest
White and black striped dress
Gray plaid jacket
Tan dress
Short red dress
Gray suit
Living room with sofa and stove
Woman with seated child; baby buggy outdoors
CAMEL TURKISH & DOMESTIC BLEND CIGARETTES
Two small boys looking up curving staircase
Copies of Bell telephone girl advertisements
Copies of Delsey toilet paper advertisements
Advertisements torn from magazines
WESSEX LAID WEAVE
Collaged letters, words, and logos
Printed papers torn from newspapers, magazines, and envelopes
LUCKY STRIKE IT'S TOASTED
Octagon and heptagon over airplane diagrams
Geometric studies: lines in triangle, pentagram in pentagon, hexagram in hexagon
Printed papers with geometric designs, torn from magazine
Two figures with collaged hand-with-cigarette-lighter heads
Women's noses and red lips in hexagon
Libby's CORNED BEEF HASH kaleidoscope
A gift of sheer delight kaleidoscope
4-STAR kaleidoscope
Untitled (STAR BRAND SHOES kaleidoscope)
Delicious COFFEE Fresh Roasted kaleidoscope
Cutter Cravat kaleidoscope
Segmented hexagon kaleidoscopes with faces and patterns
Storeroom with checkered wallpaper, shelf, barrel, and boxes
Empty patterned room with dark door
Patterned room with table and ceiling light fixture
Copies of postcards, one with patterned figure
Patterned figures in patterned rectangles
Man in patterned suit that matches hilly, patterned landscape
Pattern piece with collaged dark squares with white circles
Patterned figure in patterned circle
Eskimo in pattern of snowflakes
KOTEX
Patterned shapes in patterned rectangles
Untitled (Landscape with patterned elements)
Landscape with two patterned houses, one with patterned lean-to
Patterned landscape with house and three figures
Landscape with patterned house, cloud, and tree
Landscape with patterned house, people, and garden plots
Bedroom with spot-patterned wallpaper and bundle on dresser, seen from brass bed
Bedroom with spot-patterned wallpaper, brass bed, bundle on dresser, and star drawing on wall
Interior of a home in Placerville
Bedroom with spot-patterned wallpaper, brass bed, and clothes on pegs
Bedroom with fleur-de-lis patterned wallpaper, brass bed, and wooden bed
NASHUA trailer
Sugar Honey Maid GRAHAM CRACKERS
Photo album
The New Review
Lollipop monster figures
Conical piles of ovals
LAUND[RY]
Copy of Carl Anderson Henry cartoon; man talking to child
Photo album
Corrugated cardboard with abstract title
Photo album
Photo album
The installation of James Castle's exhibition at the Boise Gallery of Art, 1963
Corral with Trees
Segmented hexagon kaleidoscope with two women
Totem Landscape
Farmscape with hanging hooks
Stop
Your last chance
MOST
Rooster
Untitled (Turkey)
Gray Bird with White Tail
Duck
Gray goose
News clipping of a photograph of a goose on Capitol Boulevard, Boise, Idaho
Stork
Bird constructions in shed
Living room with chairs and stove
Shed interior with chairs, table, and art on walls
Empty shed(?) interior (1 of 3)
Empty shed(?) interior (2 of 3)
Empty shed(?) interior (3 of 3)
Bundles and boxes fashioned by James Castle to store his work
Pig-head boy and girl with small figure
Figure constructions (or friends)
Shed interior with art on walls
Landscape with figure constructions and architectural and bottle totems
The Placerville cemetery, Placerville, Idaho
Untitled (Farmscape with house, totems, and tumbleweed bushes)
Two figures in front of brown dream house
THE FARMERS BANK, STAR, IDAHO
Portrait heads Drwlyl and ONHBYD; paired letters
JIMMY JIMMIE house
HOMES/HOUSE
Daybed outdoors with milk separator and cup and saucer
Daybed outdoors with wire fence
Bedroom with hanging light bulb, view outdoors
Bedroom with brass bed, shelves, and clothes on line
Two figures in rowboat
Two figures in rowboat, verso showing Home Dairies VANILLA ice cream carton used as support
Copy of Henry comic strip: Special Exhibition—Hypo—The Hypnotist
Copy of Henry comic strip: Special Exhibition—Hypo—The Hypnotist
Henry comic strip: Special Exhibition—Hypo—The Hypnotist
COULD BE WORSE
Last Call!
Landscape with road through tunnel in giant tree
Postcard of the Coolidge Tree, Underwood Park, California
Kitchen corner with table, shelves, and window
View through open door to double doors with shelves above, verso
Kitchen shelf with tableware, bottles, and cans
Gray basket
Silver basket with red-checked trim
White bowl with green design
Blue-handled pitcher (from side)
Blue-handled pitcher (from back)
Man and woman in box cart
Man and woman in box cart departing
Untitled (Shed interior with constructions in theater box and hanging house constructions)
Untitled (Shed interior viewed from opposite side)
Untitled (Shed interior with constructions in theater box), recto
KEEP shed
Untitled (Mailroom with Stove and Glass-fronted Case, in Garden Valley, Idaho)
Garden Valley mailroom with stove and glass-fronted case
Cheer handmade box containing twenty-four soot and spit and color wash drawings and various ephemera
Woman in red by giant milk bottle
Farmscape with plank totems
Untitled (Farmscape with house, totems, and tumbleweed bushes)
Untitled (Farmscape with plank and bottle totems)
Farmscape with totems and tumbleweed bushes
Untitled (Farmscape with totems, hill in background)
Untitled (Farmscape with wall-segment and bottle totems)
Farmscape with house and tall totems
Untitled (Farmscape with tall, dark totems, tumbleweed bushes, and hedge (?))
Farmscape with totems and corner of shed
Small glass bottle, carved wood pieces, handmade book, and paper-wrapped glass pieces
Untitled (Farmscape with totems, shed or house, and hedge (?))
Farmscape with three plank totems
Gabled building divided vertically
Untitled (Gabled building in vertical segments)
Gabled building in vertical segments with arms, two figures
Seven girls and figure construction lined up outdoors, seen from back
Six girls, one in plaid, lined up outdoors
Girls in tan coats with gable or landscape faces
Girls in purple plaid dresses with landscape faces on bench outdoors
Shed interior with art on walls
Shed interior with art on walls and rectangular shapes on floor
Abstract figure
Shed interior with art on walls and rectangular shapes and construction (?) on floor
Interior with shaft of light and door resting on side
Landscape with architectural fragments
Interior with shaft of light and door resting on side
Three standing figures
Goat
Panorama of farm (1 of 12)
Panorama of farm (2 of 12)
Panorama of farm (3 of 12)
Panorama of farm (4 of 12)
Panorama of farm (5 of 12)
Panorama of farm (6 of 12)
Panorama of farm (7 of 12)
Panorama of farm (8 of 12)
Panorama of farm (9 of 12)
Panorama of farm (10 of 12)
Panorama of farm (11 of 12)
Panorama of farm (12 of 12)
Baby buggy
Wheelbarrow
Doorway with view to next room
Doorway with view to next room (abstracted)
Blue doorway (abstracted)
Tan doorway (abstracted)
Screen door with spindles
Porch interior with screen doors
Screen door (abstracted)
Spindle section of screen door
Open doors with black knobs
Doorknobs, one light, one dark
Farmscape with freestanding door in front of shed
Gray door (abstracted)
Red door with white knob
White window
White plaster wall section (1 of 2)
White plaster wall section (2 of 2)
Unidentified dark object (with shoelace)
Untitled (Room with woman(?), table, constructions, and staircase)
Wall section with electrical outlet
Wall section with blue and red wallpaper and gold-framed picture
Untitled (Room with two people(?), constructions along wall, and books on floor)
Room with two people(?), constructions along wall, and books on floor
Letters piece
Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary
Roman and Greek letters, some modified
Greek, Roman, and Cyrillic letters, some modified
Letter blocks with reversed Roman, Greek, and Cyrillic letters, some modified
Roman, Greek, and Cyrillic letters, some modified
Cyrillic-inspired letters and dollar signs
[PA]UL JONES [CIG]ARETTES
REGIstered MAil; Roman, Greek, and Cyrillic letters, some modified
Paired and single letters
SED and single and paired letters
Textbook pages showing Visible Speech
A key to Visible Speech pronunciation
Juxtaposed Roman, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets
P!D and paired letters, some collaged
Man of Signs, paired letters, and PURE ! DISCUISSES / BLAWS
Untitled (Man of Signs, paired letters, and PURSE ! DISCUSSES)
Paired letters and Drwlyl
Abstract title
John Morrell & Co. calendar page (April 1933)
Untitled (Pictographic calendars)
Untitled (Man of Signs and pictographic calendar)
Holly berries wrapping paper
February and March calendars (a); collaged zodiac chart (b)
Pictographic calendar
CALENDAR 1891
Unidentified scene and pictographic calendars
Twelve-month calendars
Pictographs and j g j & m z d
Collaged images from comic strips
Man of Signs / P ! D; collaged cartoon head calendar
PEET'S GRANULATED SOAP
Letters and collaged images from comic strips
Little Country Doctor EYE CHART
Single and Double Hand Alphabets chart
Collaged images from comic strips
Jiggs and Maggie comic strip Bringing Up Father
CASTLE
REAL
LEARN LIVING
SHORT RIBS
SLASHING ALL PRICES
SOLD
Polishing
LITTLE BERTHA
LITTLE BERTHA, verso showing paper patch
in TAXES This
taxes
LUNCHEON MENU
Calendar / Castle Jim / LEAVE
FACTS it Really Said
Untitled (place/lace)
Labor Day
TUNA / FIG BARS
plays
zen Idaho
of the Hour / To Look / ...Budget [C]ouncilmen
WEDding ANNIversary SAisatKAsfactio
[?]aw a Picture dog said
MENTHOLATUM / COOLING — SOOTHING
P.O. DRAWER J/ HALLOWELL / MAINE calendar with pictographs
SCRAP B[OOK]
le a labyrint
PISHORTIΦTISHOWEN
Plakatgedicht (Poème-affiche)
P!D and ornate letters and logos
Zamaul' III
and its unriva[led] by its perfect most beautiful
Abstract title
Untitled (Clock face; for the the Z and your your are)
Untitled (VALUE HIGHEST ...NED TO DEALER) [Cover]
Copies of Delsey toilet paper advertisements
Copies of newspaper advertisements
Copy of Reg Manning political cartoon Security Measures' for Russ Visit and another cartoon
Security Measures' for Russ Visit
Copy of Reg Manning political cartoon Security Measures' for Russ Visit
Burdens of Leadership
Copy of Reg Manning political cartoon Burdens of Leadership
CHALLENGE BUTTER package label
Copy of CHALLENGE BUTTER label
Copy of CHALLENGE BUTTER label
Untitled (Man in red between two giant chickens)
Bird constructions in shed, detail of the brilliant green on a bird's breast
Wads of paper, cotton, and cloth-wrapped cotton used by James Castle
A twisted wad, saturated from apparent use
One of the pictographs in one of James Castle's books, detail
A piece of unused crepe paper found among James Castle's materials; red colorant bleeding from the wet crepe paper; a wadded and used piece of red crepe paper from James Castle's studio
Woman flying toward wagon
Woman with wheel feet on street
Four standing figures, one with square head
Two standing figures, one in white, one in black
Cat-head woman in purple dress
Two figures dancing in room with orange floor
Woman with wheel feet on street, detail showing scattered bits of waxy colored material on the surface
Four figures line up outdoors
Woman in blue coat and red plaid skirt
Carved wooden sticks and nails of various shapes and sizes
A cherry cordial candy box
Drawing, detail showing how the medium glided easily over the surface, as seen in the area of the fence
Untitled (Farmscape, view from inside shed through shed doors)
Bedroom with fleur-de-lis patterned wallpaper, brass bed, and wooden bed, verso showing flattened matchbox sleeve used as support
Five dolls on top of piano
Woman flying toward wagon, detail
Long-legged black bird
Girl in red coat and boater hat
Untitled (Girl in white-dotted blue coat)
A scrap of paper
Untitled (Farmscape with tall, dark totems, tumbleweed bushes, and hedge (?)), detail
Landscape with two patterned houses, one with patterned lean-to, detail
Farmscape with plank totems, detail
Untitled (STAR BRAND SHOES kaleidoscope), detail
Untitled (Red dream house in color-block landscape), verso
Untitled (Red dream house in color-block landscape), detail
Untitled (Man in red between two giant chickens), detail
Purple alarm clock
ROYAL baking powder can
Morton Salt girl
James Castle at work
Materials from James Castle's studio
Untitled (Small chest of drawers, white handles)
Untitled (Small chest of drawers, white handles), transmission electron micrograph of black soot-and-spit ink
Untitled (Small chest of drawers, white handles), detail
GCMS total ion chromatogram (TIC)
Crayola and Little Lulu brand wax crayons
Colorants Identified in James Castle's Artworks
Colorants Identified in James Castle's Artworks
Book pages with pictographs and Cyrillic-type characters
Red crepe paper and wadded red paper
Untitled (Dresser-head girl in blue plaid dress and red hat)
Untitled (Dresser-head girl in blue plaid dress and red hat), detail
Untitled (Dresser-head girl in blue plaid dress and red hat), colorant spectrum
Untitled (Dresser-head girl in blue plaid dress and red hat), photomicrograph of white paste taken in normal light, showing granules with characteristics of wheat starch
Untitled (Dresser-head girl in blue plaid dress and red hat), photomicrograph of white paste taken in polarized light, showing granules with characteristics of wheat starch
Dream house with yellow sidewalk
Untitled (Red dream house in color-block landscape)
Woman in brown and man in blue in front of house
Untitled (Purple dream house with two trees)
Untitled (Red dream house in color-block landscape), photomicrograph detail of the blue field
Untitled (Red dream house in color-block landscape), photomicrograph detail of the green field
Negative ion LDMS spectrum of red-fiber sample from Untitled (Red dream house in color-block landscape)
Francis (Frank) and Mary Scanlon Castle with their first daughter, Mary Blanche, Garden Valley, Idaho
The area around the former Castle ranch, Garden Valley, Idaho
The Castle's Garden Valley ranch, with the barn in the background
The town of Gooding, Idaho
Frank and Mary Castle, Garden Valley
James Castle at about age eleven, Garden Valley
Boys lined up outside the boys' dormitory at the Idaho State School for the Deaf and the Blind, Gooding
The boys' dormitory of the Idaho State School for the Deaf and the Blind, just after it was completed
Members of the Castle family, Garden Valley
James Castle, Boise
James Castle next to one of the outbuildings on the family's farm in Boise
James Castle with Joe Beach Jr., son of his sister Emma (right), Boise
The house where James Castle lived with his mother and sister, and later his sister's family, the Wades, in Boise
James Castle with two of Peggy and Guy Wade's grandchildren, Boise
James Castle at the opening of his exhibition at the Boise Gallery of Art (now the Boise Art Museum)
James Castle's Cozy Cottage trailer, Boise
James Castle at age seventy-five with his sister Peggy Wade, his Cozy Cottage trailer in the background
James Castle
James Castle's desk and working area in his Cozy Cottage trailer, as preserved by his family, Boise
James Castle's desk with some of his working materials and examples of his art spread out
The Castle Family in the U.S. Census for Garden Valley, Idaho, 1900
James Castle’s Death Certificate

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Unfolding the Familiar: James Castle Reintroduced

Ann Percy

James Castle: A Retrospective

James Castle was an artists’ artist, at least at the beginnings of his emergence into public notice in Oregon and Idaho in the 1950s and early 1960s, when he was already middle-aged. It was artists and art teachers who discovered and first showed his work...

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Ann Percy

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

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Chapter subject tags:Outsider artistsCastle, James, 1899-1977Garden Valley (Idaho)Self-cultureDeaf artistsArt, American--20th century--Exhibitions

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Feather in the Doorjamb: The Private Practice of a Curious Mind

Jacqueline Crist

James Castle: A Retrospective

James Castle created privately, alone at his desk. He spent endless hours transferring the images he had accumulated each day onto found bits of paper or cardboard...

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Jacqueline Crist

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Chapter subject tags:Outsider artistsCastle, James, 1899-1977Appropriation (Art)Artist familiesPerspectiveSelf-culture

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“Tying Things Together”: An Interview with Terry Winters

Jeffrey Wolf

James Castle: A Retrospective

Terry Winters: I first saw the work in an exhibition at the Drawing Center [in New York in the spring of 2000]. Initially it was perplexing and difficult to penetrate...

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Jeffrey Wolf

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Chapter subject tags:Outsider artistsCastle, James, 1899-1977Art, American--20th centurySelf-culture

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“Characters More Comely to the Eye”: Text and Intention in the Art of James Castle

Brendan Greaves

James Castle: A Retrospective

Among those ancient scribes variously ascribed the invention of writing—the Egyptian deity Thoth...

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Brendan Greaves

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Chapter subject tags:Outsider artistsCastle, James, 1899-1977Appropriation (Art)Deaf--Means of communicationModernism (Art)--United States

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A Creative Obsession: Observations on James Castle’s Materials and Techniques

Nancy Ash and Scott Homolka

James Castle: A Retrospective

James Castle’s art—drawings of soot and spit, complex constructions, idiosyncratic books, and whimsical color renderings—embodies a deeply personal vision and artistic language...

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Nancy Ash and Scott Homolka

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Chapter subject tags:Outsider artistsCastle, James, 1899-1977Color in artDrawing--Technique

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Handmade: A Scientific Study of James Castle’s Art

Beth Anne Price and Ken Sutherland and Daniel Kirby and Maarten Van Bommel

James Castle: A Retrospective

James Castle’s art and materials have become legendary. A self-taught artist who could not hear, speak, read, or write...

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Beth Anne Price and Ken Sutherland and Daniel Kirby and Maarten Van Bommel

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

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Chapter subject tags:Outsider artistsCastle, James, 1899-1977Self-culturePigments

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