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Ann Percy (Editor)
Description: James Castle: A Retrospective
Exhibition History
Author
Ann Percy (Editor)
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
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Exhibition History
Solo Exhibitions
1951
Museum Art School, Portland Art Association, Portland, Oregon. March 1951.
1960
Campbell Hall Art Gallery, Oregon College of Education, Monmouth. December 1960.
1962
The Image Gallery, Portland, Oregon. A Voice of Silence: Drawings by James Castle. September 30–October 13, 1962. Traveled to the Bush House Museum, Salem, Oregon, October 28–November 1962.
1963
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho. James Castle. January 9–27, 1963.
1965
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland. A Voice of Silence. March 29–April 24, 1965.
1967
The Gallery, Seattle. November 1967.
1974
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle. James Castle. 1974.
1976
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho. Boise Cascade James Castle Gift. September 17–November 28, 1976.
1980(?)
Los Tres Gallery, Longview, Washington. A World Without Words. April 23–May 22, 1980(?).
1981
Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, Alaska. James Castle. April 8–July 5, 1981.
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi. A Primitive Artist: James Castle. September 4–October 18, 1981.
1982–85
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho. A Voice of Silence: A Retrospective of Works by James Castle. April 30–June 6, 1982. Traveled to the Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington, January 6–February 13, 1983; Montana State University Fine Arts Gallery, Bozeman, January 1–February 15, 1984; Paris Gibson Square Gallery, Great Falls, Montana, March 1–April 15, 1984; Matthews Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, November 11, 1984–January 1, 1985.
1989
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. Works by James Castle. September–October 1989.
1994
Rosenthal Gallery, Albertson College of Idaho, Caldwell. A Voice of Silence. November 4–December 10, 1994.
1996
J Crist Gallery, Boise, Idaho. An Amazing Luminous Fountain: The Work of James Castle. May 2–25, 1996.
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. James Castle: A Voice of Silence. December 5, 1996–March 30, 1997. Traveled to the Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 10–March 29, 1998.
1997
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago. Images in a Silent World: The Art of James Castle. January 19–March 15, 1997.
1998
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia. A Silent Voice: Drawings and Constructions of James Castle. March 4–April 4, 1998.
1999
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. Art Experience Gallery: James Castle. June 12–October 17, 1999.
2000
The Drawing Room, The Drawing Center, New York. James Castle: House Drawings. March 4–May 4, 2000.
National Design Center, American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York. Reputedly Illiterate: The Art Books of James Castle. March 29–May 12, 2000. Traveled (with some variations) to the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, March 22–25, 2001; Faculty of Art, Media, and Design, University of the West of England, Bristol, May 15–June 15, 2002.
J Crist Gallery, Boise, Idaho. A Room of His Own: James Castle. August 3–September 12, 2000.
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia. James Castle. September 9–October 21, 2000.
Knoedler & Company, New York. James Castle: The Common Place. November 15, 2000–January 13, 2001.
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. An Individual Approach: The Art of James Castle. November 25, 2000–June 3, 2001.
2001
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle. James Castle: Drawings and Works on Paper. March 1–31, 2001.
The Mayor Gallery, London. James Castle (1900–1977). November 26, 2001–February 28, 2002.
2002
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich. James Castle. May 7yJune 26, 2002.
Columbia College, Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts. The Art Books of James Castle. November 8–December 21, 2002. Traveled (with some variations) to North Idaho College, Coeur d’Alene, August 12–September 10, 2004.
Knoedler & Company, New York. James Castle: Structures. November 21, 2002–January 18, 2003.
2005
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. James Castle: Drawings, Constructions, and Books; Collection of the Boise Art Museum. March 26–June 5, 2005.
Student Union Gallery, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho. James Castle, Icehouse unto Early Attic: Books and Art. April 29–June 1, 2005. Traveled to Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, November 16, 2006–January 10, 2007; Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, January 12–April 22, 2007.
[JH] Muse Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming. One Man’s Vocabulary. August 25–September 22, 2005.
2006
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia. James Castle–Silent Satire: The Political Cartoon Appropriations. January 27–March 4, 2006.
2007
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco. James Castle. March 7–31, 2007.
Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, Texas. James Castle. May 9–June 15, 2007.
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle. James Castle: Drawings and Collages. September 1–29, 2007.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. James Castle: A Solitary Vision. September 12–December 30, 2007.
Selected Group Exhibitions
1963
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. The Innocent Eye. December 8–26, 1963.
1969
Jewett Exhibition Center, The College of Idaho, Caldwell. Thirteen Idaho Artists. May 1–June 8, 1969.
1970–71
Symbols and Images: Contemporary Primitive Artists. Traveling exhibition circulated by the American Federation of Arts, 1970–71.
1974
Fine Arts Gallery, Washington State University, Pullman. Private Purpose. April 8–24, 1974. Traveled to the Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington, May 3–June 14, 1974.
1981
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho. Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions. February 14–March 1, 1981.
1987
Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana. Out of the Mainstream: Visionary and Independent Artists of the Northwest. March 7–May 2, 1987.
1990
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. One Hundred Years of Idaho Art, 1850–1950. June 23–August 19, 1990.
1993
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. Selections from the Permanent Collection. July 3–October 25, 1993.
1994
Idaho Center for the Book, Hemingway Western Studies Center Galleries, Boise State University. Missing Pages: Idaho & the Book. April 9–May 15, 1994.
1995
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. Permanent Collection Selections: James Castle and New Acquisitions. April 29–June 25, 1995.
1996
Sheppard Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno. Memories and Visions: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies. November 1–December 31, 1996. Traveled to the Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, January 16–February 23, 1997.
1997
Idaho Center for the Book, Hemingway Western Studies Center Galleries, Boise State University. Idaho Biblio Treasures: Rare, Beautiful, and Curious Volumes in Idaho Libraries, Archives, and Private Collections. April 18–May 18, 1997.
1998
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia. American Folk Art. April 15–May 10, 1998.
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. Community Connections: In the Style of James Castle. August 6–30, 1998.
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago. Home: Places & Spaces. October 7–December 31, 1998.
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. Idaho Remembered. December 10, 1998–October 17, 1999.
1999
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia. Defining Their Times: Masterworks by 20th Century Self-Taught Artists. September 29–October 30, 1999.
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. We Are Not Alone: Angels and Other Aliens. October 2, 1999–September 3, 2000.
2000
John McEnroe Gallery, New York. New Century, New Venue, New York: Fleisher/Oilman Gallery at John McEnroe. January 19–February 4, 2000.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Making Choices: The Raw and the Cooked. March 30–September 19, 2000.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired by the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal. August 26–October 29, 2000.
2001
John McEnroe Gallery, New York. New Year, New Work, New York: Fleisher/Ollman Gallery at John McEnroe. January 24–February 3, 2001.
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle. READ ALL ABOUT IT! Text and Image in Contemporary Artworks. June 7–30, 2001.
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago. Rear Vision: The First Ten Years. September 7–November 24, 2001.
2002
John McEnroe Gallery, New York. New Year, New Work, New York 2002: Fleisher/Ollman Gallery at John McEnroe. January 22–February 4, 2002.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley. Fast Forward II. June 19, 2002–February 9, 2003.
American Folk Art Museum, New York. American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. July 11, 2002–January 5, 2003.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. September 29–December 8, 2002.
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York. American Vernacular. New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculpture. October 17–November 16, 2002.
2003
New York Studio School. American Cutout. October 14–November 22, 2003.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley. Turning Corners. February 26, 2003–Summer 2004.
2004
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York. Cut It Out: Collaged Works by American Self-Taught Artists. January 14–February 7, 2004.
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. Elegance of Form: Home. January 20–June 27, 2004.
Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York. American Art Brut. April 22–June 5, 2004.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts. Fabulous Histories: Indigenous Anomalies in American Art. October 21–November 19, 2004.
2005
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. 150 Works of Art, No Walls. October 1, 2005–February 26, 2006.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper. November 2, 2005–January 5, 2006.
2006
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia. Rock, Paper, Scissors: American Collage Now. March 11–April 29, 2006.
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Inner Worlds Outside. April 28–June 5, 2006.
Knoedler & Company, New York. James Castle/Walker Evans: Word-Play, Signs, and Symbols. May 4–August 11, 2006.
2007
J Crist Gallery, Boise, Idaho. Unspeakable. February 10–March 24, 2007.
2008
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia. 2000 Years of Sculpture. February 2–March 8, 2008.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing. March 26–July 7, 2008.
JH Muse Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming. Rock, Paper, Scissors. August 6–September 2, 2008.
Exhibition History
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