Object Details
- Artist
- Wendell Castle, born Emporia, KS 1932-died Scottsville, NY 2018
- Exhibition Label
- At first glance Ghost Clock appears to be a grandfather clock hidden under a white sheet. However, a closer look reveals a masterful deception: this entire sculpture was hand-carved from a single block of laminated mahogany. With its meticulous detail, Castle re-created in wood the contours of soft, supple cloth, then completed the illusion by bleaching the "drapery" white and staining the base of the "clock" a walnut brown. This work is the last in a series of thirteen clocks the artist created in the 1980s; unlike the others, it lacks an inner mechanism. Its haunting stillness and silence suggest eternity--the absence of time.
- Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, 2019
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program
- Copyright
- © 1985, Wendell Castle
- 1985
- Object number
- 1989.68
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Furniture
- Crafts
- Medium
- bleached Honduras mahogany
- Dimensions
- 86 1/4 x 24 1/2 x 15 in. (219.0 x 62.2 x 38.1 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Fantasy\ghost
- Object\furniture\clock
- Object\other\linens
- Record ID
- saam_1989.68
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk70b23f192-339e-46ec-a6b7-0e97b8fe9a8a
