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WENDELL CASTLE Sea Clock.
Polychrome jelutong, walnut burl veneers, poplar and quartz movement, 1995. 752 mm; 29 1/2 inches (height, including burlwood base). Carved with the artist's signature and date, on the edge of the base recto.
This work is given the Wendell Castle studio inventory number 2881.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Exhibited: "Works by Wendell Castle," Atlanta Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, November 17, 1995- January 31, 1996; "Wendell Castle: New Furniture," Gremillion & Co., Houston, September 19- October 20, 1996.
Published: Carroll, "Sculptor Wendell Castle's Exhibition Opens at ACA," The Observer (New Smyrna Beach, Florida), November 17, 1995; Stewart, "Sculptor Blurs Line Between Art and Craft," The Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal, December 3, 1995; Stewart, "Woodworker's Art Showcased in ACA Exhibit," The Daytona Sunday News-Journal,, December 3, 1995; McDermott Hamm, "Man's Artful Home Can Be His Castle," Houston Chronicle, September 12, 1996; Eerdmans, Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-2012, page 280, number IV. 129 (illustrated).
