Untitled (Star Kaleidoscope)
n.d.
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soot and spit on brown paper
Dimensions
sheet: 26.67 × 25.72 cm (10 1/2 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of James Castle Collection and Archive, and Acquisition with Edward E. MacCrone Fund
Accession Number
2013.33.3
About the Artist
James Castle
**James Castle: A Self-Taught Visionary of Rural America** James Charles Castle was born on September 25, 1899, on a remote farm in Garden Valley, Idaho, to Frank and Mary Castle, local postmasters and the parents of seven children, of whom he was the fifth. Profoundly deaf from birth, Castle attended the Gooding School for the Deaf and Blind from ages ten to fifteen but never mastered sign langu...