Untitled (Book of Drawings after Advertisements / Baby and Bell Telephone Girl), probably 1940s

Not on View

Medium

bound volume of found paper and string with soot

Dimensions

book (closed): 12.86 × 9.21 cm (5 1/16 × 3 5/8 in.) irregular

Credit Line

Gift of James Castle Collection and Archive, and Acquisition with Avalon Fund

Accession Number

2013.33.42.1-16

Artists / Makers

James Castle (artist) American, 1899 - 1977

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Provenance

by inheritance to his sister, Agnes C. Wade, 1977; by inheritance 1993 to Geraldine E. Garrow, Georgia M. Allred, Guy W. Wade Jr. and Gail M. Johnson; transferred 1996 to James Castle Collection (comprised of the heirs of Agnes C. Wade); transferred 2011 to James Castle Collection and Archive LP; acquired 2013 by NGA

Associated Names

James Castle Collection and Archive, LP

Exhibition History

2008: October 14, 2008- January 4, 2009. James Castle: A Retrospective. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Bibliography

2008: Percy, Ann. James Castle: A Retrospective. (Exh. Cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art) Philadelphia, 2008: p. 42, figure 92.

2013: Brodie, Judith. "James Castle, Drawings, Artists' Books, and Assemblages." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 48 (Spring 2013): 28-29.