SANTA BARBARA — James Castle was obsessed with drawing. He reportedly drew at least one picture every day, and often many more, which added up to a portfolio of thousands when the self-taught ...

An exhibition at the New York Studio School gathers about 50 of Castle's strangely poetic drawings and cardboard constructions.

Castle created his work using found objects: paper from his parent's post office, cardboard from matchboxes, soot from the wood stove mixed with saliva to create a kind of charcoal ink.

The ample selection on offer — drawings, sculptural objects made of cardboard, paper and string, ... James Castle. Through Feb. 12 at David Zwirner Gallery, 537 West 20th Street, ...

If anyone merits the description "self-taught artist," it's James Castle. Castle (1899-1977), born deaf into an Idaho farming family, apparently never learned to write, speak or sign, despite ...

Sun., Sept. 9, 2012 This undated photo shows some of the drawings found by Jeannie Schmidt in 2010 behind a bedroom wall in a house in Boise where famed Idaho folk artist James Castle used to live.

James Castle was an American outsider artist who is best known for his sensitive drawings depicting the environs and people of his small town. He mostly used soot he collected from a wood stove mixed ...

TWIN FALLS — James Castle is still connecting with others, without saying a word. Students learned about the Idaho artist Wednesday during a workshop at the Idaho School for the Deaf and the ...

James Castle was obsessed with drawing. He reportedly drew at least one picture every day, and often many more, which added up to a portfolio of thousands when the self-taught artist died in 1977 ...