{"id":578,"date":"2014-07-01T16:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2014-07-09T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T22:15:26","slug":"castle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Page-Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_578'] = [\n{id: 833, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/CastleJames_Untitled5Sisters-e1404313898134.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/CastleJames_Untitled5Sisters-e1404313898134-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/castle\/#833\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>James Castle<\/h1><h1><i>Untitled (5 Sisters)<\/i> <\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Mixed media on found paper<br\/>Courtesy Blanchard-Hill Collection<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/castle\/#833\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'},\n{id: 1157, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Castle_Construction3Figures-new2-e1404944080215.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Castle_Construction3Figures-new2-e1404944111204-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/castle\/#1157\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>James Castle<\/h1><h1><i>Construction (3 figures)<\/i> <\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Mixed media on found paper<br\/>Courtesy Blanchard-Hill Collection<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/castle\/#1157\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><strong>James Castle<\/strong> (American, 1899\u20131977)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-435 alignleft\" alt=\"Castle, James\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Castle-James-e1404245379661-250x222.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Castle-James-e1404245379661-250x222.jpg 250w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Castle-James-e1404245379661.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>In 1899 in rural Idaho, James Castle was born deaf; he would never learn to sign, or truly to read or to write, but rather communicated daily through his art. These works, on discarded letters, cardboard, or the remnants of books, journals, and boxes illustrate Castle\u2019s life and his surroundings. From interiors to exteriors, we can see Castle\u2019s homes, other homesteads, figures, animals, buildings, and common objects. Beyond his many drawings, Castle\u2019s opus also includes three-dimensional paper-crafts (often of people and birds) and collages. Castle\u2019s most frequently used medium, resembling traditional charcoal, is a solution of stove soot and spit, and with his collages Castle regularly soaked and ground construction and crepe paper in water or saliva to acquire colored pigments. These latter creations are commonly referred to as \u201cpulp\u201d paintings. He preferred his own natural, intimate processes to traditional art materials. Stylistically Castle\u2019s works are diverse, at times appearing as simple abstractions of environments, and at others they\u2019re astutely realistic.<\/p>\n<p>Castle did receive some attention before his death. In the 1950s Castle\u2019s nephew, Bob Beach, took his works to art professors in Portland, Oregon. As a result of this exposure, Castle\u2019s art was exhibited regionally until his death in 1977, when, overwhelmed by his growing popularity and their loss, his family denied access to his works until 1998. Now, Castle\u2019s work can be found in private and public collections nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-578 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_578\" data-imgid=\"833\" href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/CastleJames_Untitled5Sisters-e1404313898134.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/CastleJames_Untitled5Sisters-e1404313898134-215x215.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-833\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-833'>\n\t\t\t\t<i>Untitled (5 Sisters)<\/i> \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-postid=\"fsg_post_578\" data-imgid=\"1157\" href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Castle_Construction3Figures-new2-e1404944080215.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Castle_Construction3Figures-new2-e1404944111204-215x215.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1157\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1157'>\n\t\t\t\t<i>Construction (3 figures)<\/i> \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Castle (American, 1899\u20131977) In 1899 in rural Idaho, James Castle was born deaf; he would never learn to sign, or truly to read or to write, but rather communicated daily through his art. 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