Smithsonian Collections
Music Stand
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Luce Center Label
- Music Stand is one of Wendell Castle’s biomorphic pieces of the 1970s that achieved, in his words, “a sense of delicate balance . . . that [seems] to defy gravity.” The graceful, tapered legs reflect Castle’s belief that the base of a piece is as important as what it supports. Music Stand is an example of the artist’s efforts to create furniture that is “equal to sculpture” and “accepted on the same level as other art forms.”
- Artist
- Wendell Castle, born Emporia, KS 1932-died Scottsville, NY 2018
- Date
- 1975
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Medium
- walnut
- Dimensions
- 42 1/8 x 26 3/8 x 19 1/4 in. (107.0 x 67.0 x 49.0 cm)
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Furniture
- Crafts
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 56B
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Object number
- 1975.168
