Wendell Castle Long Afternoon

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Unique
2015
Stained Ash, Oil Finish

Wendell Castle’s ash sculpture Long Afternoon features three tapering, conical spires reaching upwards at different angles, providing the framework for a tabletop held against two of them. The table is supported from below by the extended, sloping base of a seat that emerges from the side of the structure. Combining angles, flat surfaces and organic shapes, the piece exemplifies Castle’s attention to volume, form and movement.

Artist Biography

Born in Kansas in 1932, Wendell Castle received two degrees from the University of Kansas, one in industrial design in 1958 and the other in sculpture in 1961. He moved to Rochester, New York to teach at the School for American Crafts and established a permanent studio in the area that is still in operation today. He reinvented himself for nearly six decades.