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American Craftsmen's Council, Fantasy Furniture, exhibition catalogue (New York: Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen's Council, 1966).
Lillian Braun, "Fantastic Furniture, but Usable," Detroit Free Press, February 13, 1966.
Patricia Conway, Art for Everyday: The New Craft Movement (New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1990).
Sally Eauclaire, "'Artmaker' Castle: Revolution in Furniture," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), September 18, 1977.
"Fantasy in Furniture," Interior Design (February 1966).
"Far-Out Furniture," Mid-South: The Commercial Appeal Magazine (Memphis, TN) (May 22, 1966).
Elizabeth Forbes, "Launching the Craft: The MAG Is Riding the Wave of Giving Craft Artists Their Due," Times-Union (Rochester, NY), May 28, 1992.
Alastair Gordon, Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms–Works from 1959-1979 (New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2012).
Howard Graff, "Three Designers: Rising Stars," House Beautiful (July 1966).
Sebby Wilson Jacobson, "Keys to the Castle: 30-Year Retrospective Reveals More Than Handsome Furniture," Times-Union (Rochester, NY), December 27, 1990.
Barbara Lovenheim, "Wendell Castle," in Breaking Ground: A Century of Craft Art in Western New York (Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2010).
Laurie Manfra, "Wendell Castle: Shifting Shapes & Breaking the Rules," American Craft (October/November 2008).
Julie McGraw, "Exciting Furniture in Gallery Exhibit," Times-Union (Rochester, NY), December 16, 1965.
Donald McKinley, "Exhibitions: Wendell Castle," Craft Horizons (March 1966).
Todd Merrill and Julie V. Iovine, Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam (New York: Rizzoli, 2008).
Bruce Metcalf, "American Studio Furniture 1940-1990," American Craft (February/March 2004).
Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design), New York, NY, Annual Report, 1966.
Ron Netsky, "Carving Out a Career: Retrospective Surveys Art of Wendell Castle," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), December 23, 1990.
Marian Page, "Fantasy Furniture," Interiors (February 1966).
William Pahlmann, "Fantasy Furniture: An Experience as Well as Household Equipment," Providence Sun Journal (Providence, RI), October 9, 1966.
Thomas Simpson, Fantasy Furniture: Design and Decoration (New York: Reinhold, 1968).
Davira S. Taragin, "Evolution of a Commission: A Wendell Castle Bench," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 65, no. 1 (1989).
Davira S. Taragin, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., and Joseph Giovannini, Furniture by Wendell Castle (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989).
Rebecka Tarschys, "Fantasins Museum," Form, 4, 1966.
Mary Wilson, "Furniture in the Fantastic Style," Indianapolis Star, February 27, 1966.
Jean Walrath, "Newly Designed Furniture That Gets Pretty Wild," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), December 19, 1965.
"Wendell Castle," Mobilia (Copenhagen) (August 1968).Note Type
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Made for the 1965 one-man show Designed by Wendell Castle at the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY, Library Sculpture received its current title after its installation in a private library.
The piece was Castle's most ambitious to date in scale and incorporation of multiple functions, including two seats, a table, and a lamp. He observes, "To have only one leg support all these elements was an idea I had been thinking about for a long time."
Library Sculpture is comprised of two seats, a table, a lamp, and an ottoman.