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Datemid - 20th century
Maker
Joseph Cornell
American, 1903-1972
Label TextCornell came to know the Surrealists through exhibitions in New York in the early 1930s. By 1936 he was building boxes such as these composed of a variety of found materials, a pursuit that sustained him into the 1960s. There is a visual poetry to the best of Cornell's work that often includes disorienting shifts of scale, voyages to the stars, or nocturnal reveries.
Object number96.82
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "International Abstraction: Making Painting Real", May 2, 2003 - February 29, 2004Credit LineThe Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation
Dimensions11 1/2 x 19 1/16 x 4 3/8 in. (29.21 x 48.42 x 11.11 cm)
MediumWood, Plexiglas, paper, paint, metal, rubber
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