II.231 Game Table, 1974 (25)

Sculpture

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Wendell Castle Archives

Name/Title

II.231 Game Table, 1974 (25)

Entry/Object ID

sc.0280.0025.1974

Type of Sculpture

Free Standing

Artwork Details

Medium

Black walnut, Curly maple

Collection

Tables, 1970s

Cataloged By

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Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Wendell Castle

Role

Artist

Date made

1974

Time Period

1970s

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature

Transcription

WC 74

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Catalogue Raisonné Number

Other Number

II.231

Number Type

Studio Number

Other Number

25

Dimensions

Height

29 in

Depth

39 in

Length

39 in

Height

73.7 cm

Depth

99.1 cm

Length

99.1 cm

Colors

Color

Brown

Color Notes

This table is dark brown with a lighter tabletop center of curly maple.

Inventory

Inventoried By

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Inventoried Date

Sep 11, 2026

Relationships

Related Entries

Entry

II.151 Set of Zephyr Chairs, 1976 (25)

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Private Collection

Notes

Private collection in Rochester, NY.

Exhibitions

Language of Wood: Buffalo Craftsmen and the Burchfield Center Present 29 North American Designer Craftsmen
American Crafts 1977
Furniture as Art
Paley/Castle/Wildenhain

General Notes

Note Type

Literature

Note

Bruce W. Chambers, Paley/Castle/Wildenhain (Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Galley, University of Rochester, 1979). Barbaralee Diamonstein, Handmade in America: Conversations with Fourteen Craftmasters (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983). Philippe Garner, Twentieth-Century Furniture (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980). Language of Wood: Buffalo Craftsmen and the Burchfield Center Present 29 North American Designer Craftsmen, exhibition catalogue (Buffalo, NY: Charles Burchfield Center, Buffalo State College, 1975). Nancy M. McNeil and Elena Karina Canavier, American Crafts 1977/Philadelphia Craft Show, exhibition catalogue (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art Women's Committee, 1977). Kathi Norklun, "Wendell Castle: Furniture as Art," Washington Review (Washington, DC) (October 1978). Sharon Page, "Furniture as an Art Form," Washington Star (Washington, DC), October 15, 1978.

Note Type

Comments

Note

Game Table is fitted with two frieze drawers. See accompanying five chairs in Set of Zephyr Chairs, II.151.

Created By

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Create Date

September 11, 2026

Updated By

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Update Date

September 11, 2026