The first Southern California show of self-taught artist James Castle (1899-1977) is now on view at Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
The little-known Italian Baroque painter’s approach bestowed an aura of dignified understanding usually reserved for the upper classes onto people who were down and out.Castle was born in the tiny mountain village of Garden Valley — and I mean tiny, maybe 25 people — about 50 miles north of Boise, in 1899. He was profoundly deaf.
Since 2000 his work has been seen everywhere from the Drawing Center in New York to Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. A fullwas assembled by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2009, featuring more than 300 examples; it traveled to Chicago and Berkeley.
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