Wendell Castle Second Coming
Price on request
Unique
2013
Stained Ash, Oil Finish
248 x 104 x 130 cm
97.6 x 40.9 x 51.2 in
Second Coming exemplifies the unconventional forms that Castle injected into the American Art Furniture movement. Castle spent his 60-year career embracing new technologies so he could stay at the forefront of contemporary art and design, including his famed stack-lamination wood technique in which Second Coming is crafted.
Artist
Wendell Castle
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.
