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Joseph Cornell

Untitled

Description

Maker

Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972)

Title

Untitled

Year

1949-1952

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

glass, wood, sand

Dimensions

31.1 x 21.6 x 11.7 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed lower center of back:Joseph Cornell

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

82.107

Type

Sculpture

Exhibition History

Better Still

Looking at Still Life in the Museum Collection

Feb 06, 2004 – May 02, 2004

The New York School

Aaron Siskind in Context

Nov 07, 2003 – Jan 25, 2004

Label copy

Cornell is admired for his box sculptures such as this in which he assembles found objects and images. These “assemblages” combine a formal abstract structure with the fantasy of surrealism, a strategy also used by Aaron Siskind. Cornell and Siskind met in the late 1940s. Siskind photographed Cornell’s work, as he did for many artists, among them de Kooning, Gottlieb, Newman, and Rothko, most often in exchange for art. A Siskind photograph of Cornell’s 1949 exhibition at the Egan Gallery, New York, is on view in the case. In 1974, coming upon some box-like altars at a cemetery in Mérida, Mexico, Siskind began a series of pictures entitled “Remembering Joseph Cornell in Mérida.”

Recent Gifts and Acquisitions

Nov 05, 1982 – Jan 02, 1983

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Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972)

Untitled, 1949-1952

Wood, glass and sand

31.1 x 21.6 x 11.7 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches)

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 82.107

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