Wendell Castle
Arch Clock

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Artist Wendell Castle American, 1932–2018

CultureAmerican

Titles

Arch Clock

Date1985

MediumBrazilian rosewood, curly maple, gold-plated brass, and wind and electrical movements with chimes

Dimensions91 1/2 × 56 1/2 × 19 in. (232.4 × 143.5 × 48.3 cm)

Credit LineThe Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection, gift of Leatrice and Melvin Eagle

Object number2017.302

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Department

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Special Collections

Leatrice and Melvin Eagle Collection of Contemporary Craft

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TIMEPIECES

Provenance[Alexander F. Miliken, Inc., New York]; [The Humana Corporate Art Collection, Louisville, Kentucky, 1989]; [Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Sale 6 May, 2016, Lot 77]; purchased by Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle, Potomac, Maryland; given to MFAH, 2017.
Exhibition History"Masterpieces of Time," Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 12-October 27, 1985; Alexander F. Milliken Inc., New York, November 2-December 20, 1985; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., December 24, 1985–May 4, 1986.

"Time and Defiance of Gravity: Recent Works by Wendell Castle," Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, July 12 - September 21, 1986; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 1 - November 2, 1986.
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Catalogue raisonnéEerdmans, Emily Evans. Wendell Castle - A Catalogue Raisonne, 1958-2012, New York: The Artist Book Foundation, 2014.

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