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Joseph Cornell

Untitled, 1949-1952

Description

Maker

  • Joseph Cornell, 1903-1972, American

Title

Untitled

Year

1949-1952

Medium

Wood, glass and sand

Materials/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

Type

  • Sculpture

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

82.107

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 13

Storage
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Better Still

February 6 - May 2, 2004

The New York School

November 7, 2003 - January 25, 2004

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

November 5, 1982 - January 2, 1983

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Untitled with the accession number of 82.107. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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