  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  In 1986 the DIA commissioned furniture artist Wendell Castle to fashion a bench for the museum's permanent collection. Castle creates work that continually challenges accepted attitudes about the design, construction, and purpose of furniture. The aluminum framework was the first element constructed. Castle then began carving the armrests in the middle of the bench and the six legs from stack-laminated forms. The outer portions of the arms are constructed using lamination in which small pieces of wood are arranged in formations like brick walls to strengthen the joints.
  
  
  Title
  Bench
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1988
  
  Artist
  Wendell Keith Castle
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1932 - 2018
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Amaranth (purpleheart), aluminum, and cowhide
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 35 &Atilde;&#151; 129 3/4 &Atilde;&#151; 48 inches (88.9 cm &Atilde;&#151; 3 m 29.6 cm &Atilde;&#151; 121.9 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Furniture
  
  
  Department
  Contemporary Art after 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase with funds from Art of Poland Associates
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1988.19
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
  
  
  
