#joseph cornell

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Joseph Cornell, Untitled (mountainous landscape at sunset with pair of female figureheads), n.d., collage.

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Angel (1957), dir. Joseph Cornell

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Untitled (Marine Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova), Joseph Cornell, circa 1940

Collage and tempera on paperboard 21 x 13 ½ in. (53.34 x 34.29 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

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Joseph Cornell Medici Princess, c. 1948–52 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Museum Purchase, 1979 © The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / VAGA, New York

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CORNELL, Joseph. Maria. 6 unpaginated leaves with printed text, with one decorative headpiece. Small 8vo., bound in original printed wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. New York: Salamander Editions, 1954.

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Charles Simic, from Dime-Store Alchemy: the art of Joseph Cornell

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Andromeda (+another; verso), Joseph Cornell, c. 1965

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Joseph Cornell.

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Angel (Joseph Cornell; Rudy Burckhardt, 1957)

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Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972). The Puzzle of the Reward #2. Paper collage on artist board, in artist’s frame.

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Joseph Cornell, Untitled (interior genre painting by Chardin), n.d.

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Angel (1957), dir. Joseph Cornell

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joseph cornell : untitled

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Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1971)

yellow sand fountain variations:

Untitled (Yellow Sand Fountain) (two views) - early 1950s

Sand Fountain (front & verso views) - wood box construction with sand, glass, paint, collage and cardboard - 12¼''x 8''x 4'' - c. 1950

Untitled (Yellow Sand Fountain) - 1959

Sand Fountain (front & verso views) - 1948

Untitled (Yellow Sand Fountain) - gouache, sand and printed paper collage - 1955

In a dairy entry of September 1945, Cornell wrote, “one of the finest boxes (objects) ever made was worked out this day (completed or almost). The box of a white chamber effect with a ‘fountain‘ of green sand running. Shell, broken stem glass for receptacle��� (Cornell 1993, p. 124).

The Sand Fountain Boxes are perhaps the most difficult of Cornell‘s works to appreciate in reproduction, for the pleasure of looking is ideally complemented by the pleasure of handling the boxes and watching the changes of shape in the pouring sand. In Untitled (Yellow Sand Fountain), when the box is turned upside down, the yellow sand collects within the hollow, triangular birdhouse. As the box is righted, it then pours from the entrance hole onto the broken glass, cascading from the glass’s irregular edges onto the floor of the box. This work thus combines the symbolic resonance of the hourglass, whose sands measure the passage of time, with the idle fascination of watching something (like waves) in unpredictable but repetitive motion. The comparison with an hourglass is interesting from a formal point of view as well: in the latter the movement of the sand is regulated by passing through the instrument‘s narrow waist; here, the space between the upper and lower containers is open; the glass, rather than containing and enclosing the sand, allows it to spill out, its broken and irregular edge causing the sand to flow unequally.

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Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972) Untitled (Schooner) 1931

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Joseph Cornell - Cotillion (1938)