Lenders to the Exhibition

Percy, Ann

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Lenders to the Exhibition

Ann Percy (Editor)

James Castle: A Retrospective

Lenders to the Exhibition

Author

Ann Percy (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23011

Lenders to the Exhibition

American Folk Art Museum, New York

The Art Institute of Chicago

Didi and David Barrett, New York

Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York

Helen and Jack Bershad, Philadelphia

Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho

Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, Philadelphia

Cate Brigden and Steven K. Rust, Boise, Idaho

The James Castle Collection, L.P., Boise, Idaho

Susan and Alvin Chereskin, New York

Chowaiki Mosionzhnik Gallery, New York

Sarah and James Christensen, Boise, Idaho

Deborah and Robert Cummins, Evanston, Illinois

Frank Del Deo and Amy DeMattia, New York

Frances and Roy Ellsworth, Boise, Idaho

Patricia Feiwel, New York

Ann and Robert L. Freedman, New York

Jessica Freedman, New York

Jeffrey M. Goldberg, Chicago

Robert M. Greenberg, New York

Dr. Robert Grossett, Lake Forest, Illinois

halley k harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York

Patricia and Alan Head, Boise, Idaho

Dolly and Brian Higgins, Boise, Idaho

Susan Hirsch, New York

Thomas Isenberg, New York

Willa and Scott Lang, Chicago

Allie Lennox, Chicago

Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago

Kate Lennox, Chicago

Judith Lile-Hynes, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Kimberly Johnson Loder, Boise, Idaho

Marianne and Sheldon B. Lubar, Milwaukee

Frank Maresca, New York

John McEnroe, New York

Linda and Jerome H. Meyer, Chicago

Milwaukee Art Museum

Ann and John Oilman, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art

William Pym, New York

Laura Rasmussen and Michael Stephenson, Boise, Idaho

Selig D. Sacks, New York

Ilana Shumsky and Kevin Shea, Boise, Idaho

Johanna and Geoffrey Stern, New York

Marion Boulton Stroud, Elverson, Pennsylvania

Harvey Tulcensky, New York

Mary Ellen Vehlow and Stephen Hessler, Washington, D.C.

Judie and Bennett Weinstock, Philadelphia

Vivian and Gary Weisner, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Katharine C. Wodell, New York

Nancy and Michael Yecies, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania

Christian Zacharias

And anonymous private individuals

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BOOKJames Castle: A Retrospective

Ann Percy (Editor)

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

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23009

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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Author

Ann Percy (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Print publication date November 2008 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300137309

EISBN 9780300272192

Illustrations 434

Print Status out of print

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