Untitled (Sugar Honey Maid Graham Crackers Book)

James Castle

after 1930

Soot and soot wash drawings on found beige paper, in covers fashioned from thin gray cardboard faced with beige paper (commercially printed Sugar Honey Maid graham crackers packaging), bound with white cotton string

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Born in rural Idaho, James Castle was a self-taught artist who lived with family members throughout his life. Though isolated from the art world, he produced over 20, 000 unique works of art—drawings, collages, handmade books, and constructions—made from found materials and improvised media. Profoundly deaf from birth, Castle did not speak and never learned to sign, red lips, or write. His remarkable artistic achievements are now recognized internationally. Consisting of more than 100 individual hand-drawn images on 16 sheets of found paper, this untitled and undated artist’s book is a distinctive blend of material originality and e