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Untitled (Fantasy landscape with car, structures), not dated
James Castleexpand_more
Gift of The James Castle Collection, Boise, Idahoexpand_more 2007.74.2
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Fantasy scenes appear regularly among Castle’s drawings. Often produced as color pigment drawings, these enigmatic depictions feature both familiar and invented objects. In this curious example, Castle placed what appears to be a car or similar vehicle at the center of an uninhabited landscape. Several ambiguous structures appear in the foreground and background, their conceptual purpose uncertain. Indeed, attempting to assign specific meanings to this drawing is at best guesswork, as Castle never explained his work, always allowing it to speak for itself. In the lower margin of the drawing, Castle added a short horizontal line, his symbolic stand-in for a descriptive caption.
Details
- Title
- Untitled (Fantasy landscape with car, structures)
- Artist Life
- 1899–1977
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2007.74.2
- Provenance
- The artist, Boise, Idaho; Estate of the artist, Boise, Idaho; given to MIA, 2007.
- Curator Approved
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