James Charles Castle

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James Castle (September 25, 1899 – October 26, 1977) [1] was an American artist born in Garden Valley, Idaho. Although Castle did not know about the art world outside of his small community, his work ran parallel to the development of 20th-century art history. [2] His works have been collected by major institutions. The Philadelphia Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Castle's work which toured nationally in 200809. Castle's work entered the international arena with a substantial exhibition in Madrid, Spain at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 2011 and was included in the 2013 Venice Biennale exhibition The Encyclopedic Palace. In 2014 The Smithsonian American Art Museum featured their recent acquisition in the exhibition Untitled: The Art of James Castle and the Whitney Museum of American Art included their acquired collection of Castle's work in the 2017 exhibition Where We Are.

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Biography

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James Castle seated in his studio in Boise, Idaho

James Castle was a self-taught artist who created drawings, assemblage and books throughout his lifetime. Castle was born profoundly deaf and for at least some time attended the Gooding School for the Deaf and the Blind in Gooding, Idaho, but it is not known to what extent he could read, write, or use sign language. [3] 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 with saliva and applied it with tools of his own making, including sharpened sticks, and other found objects. His drawings sensitively depict interiors, buildings, animals, landscapes 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. His former home in Boise, Idaho is now a cultural center devoted to his work and includes an artist-in-residence venue. [4]

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James Castle's works are in the collections of the following institutions:[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. See Find A Grave site.
  2. Percy, Ann. "James Castle: A Retrospective." Yale University Press, 2008, p. 70.
  3. Trusky, Tom (2004). James Castle: His Life and His Art. Boise: Idaho Center for the Book. pp. 11–17. ISBN   0-932129-42-0.
  4. Webb, Anna (2018-04-12). "These 11 artworks were inside walls of James Castle's house. This is how to see them". Idaho Statesman. Retrieved 2018-04-13.