11/04/2008. BOISE, ID.- Boise Art Museum (BAM) is proud to support the Philadelphia Museum of Art with the loan of eleven artworks to their major exhibition James Castle: A Retrospective. The exhibition features 275 color wash pieces, constructions, and ...

01/03/2009. PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the first comprehensive museum exhibition of the art of James Castle (1899-1977), one of the most enigmatic and remarkable self-t...

05/04/2009. BOISE, ID.- Boise Art Museum presents the work of Idaho artist James Castle (1900-1977), in an exhibition entitled Tying it Together, through September 27, 2009. Since first displayi...

09/23/2009. NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Institute of Chicago will host the first comprehensive museum exhibition of art by James Castle (1899-1977), one of the most enigmatic and extraordinary se...

05/17/2011. MADRID.- Primitive, outsider, vernacular or visionary are some of the words used to define the complexity of James Castle (Idaho, 1900-1977). The artist spent his life in rural Idaho, inventing his own artistic technique while creating totemic...

05/18/2011. MADRID.- Primitive, outsider, vernacular or visionary are some of the words used to define the complexity of James Castle (Idaho, 1900-1977). The artist spent his life in rural Idaho, inventing his own artistic technique while creating totemic...

04/12/2012. BOISE (AP).- A judge this week will decide who owns three bundles of artwork by James Castle found tucked away in the famed artist's home and potentially worth thousands of dollars. Artwork by Castle, who lived in a northwest Boise home unt...

11/17/2012. WASHINGTON, DC.- At its recent meeting in October, the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art accepted an impressive array of new acquisitions, augmenting the collections of paintings,...

09/26/2014. James Castle (1899–1977) was one of the most enigmatic American artists of the 20th century. For nearly seven decades, he created an expansive body of complex and layered work while living in rural Idaho without access to traditional written lan...

11/08/2016. Freeman's November 16 American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts auction is highlighted by impressive private collections, including furnishings from historic Lemon Hill mansion of Fairmou...

12/14/2016. The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced today a gift of 93 works of art from the collection of Margaret Z. Robson. The Robson collection includes important paintings, drawings and sculptur...

10/17/2021. An artist working in a vacuum; the elusive blank slate; an American original. Accurate or not, this is the romance and the promise of James Castle (1899-1977). We are captivated by the fullness of expression attained despite his limitations, even env...

01/16/2022. To look at James Castle’s work is to enter his secret world. The artist often bundled and then hid away his works in the walls of homes and outbuildings or even buried them in holes. This habit of hiding exists in tension with the wondrous dr...

04/17/2023. Adams and Ollman is presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Emma cc Cook with a selection of historical works on paper by self-taught artist James Castle. The rural A...

06/27/2023. With more than 90 works, this exhibition features many of the most beautiful and accomplished drawings created by the extraordinarily gifted, self-taught artist James Castle. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art</...