II.135 Settee, 1967 (115)

Sculpture

Wendell Castle Archives

Name/Title

II.135 Settee, 1967 (115)

Entry/Object ID

sc.0183.0115.1967

Type of Sculpture

Free Standing

Artwork Details

Medium

Oak

Collection

Settees, 1960s

Cataloged By

[email protected]

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Wendell Castle

Role

Artist

Date made

1967

Time Period

1960s

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature

Transcription

WC 67

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Catalogue Raisonné Number

Other Number

II.135

Number Type

Studio Number

Other Number

115

Dimensions

Height

33 in

Width

53-7/8 in

Depth

28 in

Height

83.8 cm

Width

136.8 cm

Depth

71.1 cm

Colors

Color

Brown

Color Notes

Light brown with darker panels.

Inventory

Inventoried By

[email protected]

Inventoried Date

Jul 17, 2026

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Wendell Castle and Nancy Jurs

Place

County

Scottsville

State/Province

New York

Exhibitions

Design and Aesthetics in Wood

An International Exhibition and Sale of Advanced Concepts in Modern Seating

Handcrafted Furniture by Wendell Castle—New York Debut

The Furniture of Wendell Castle

The Art of the Chair: Western New York Furniture Design

General Notes

Note Type

Literature

Note

"Avant-garde on Eighth Avenue," Interiors (April 1968). Eleanor Dienstag, "Happy Birthday, Shop One," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), September 24, 1972. Edmund Burke Feldman, Becoming Human Through Art: Aesthetic Experience in the School (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1971). _____, Varieties of Visual Experience (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1971). Alastair Gordon, Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms–Works from 1959-1979 (New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2012).

Note Type

Comments

Note

This piece appeared in a television interview with Lee Nordness on July 2, 1968.

Created By

[email protected]

Create Date

July 17, 2026

Updated By

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Update Date

October 8, 2026