Artist: Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972)
Nationality: American
Movement:
Media: Sculpture
Influences:

Biography:
:

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Joseph Cornell.

Museum of Fine Arts -
Joseph Cornell, American, 1903-1972 Untitled 1970 Assemblage: burned paper, ink, graphite, watercolor, gouache on mat
-
Joseph Cornell Untitled (How To Make a Rainbow) Screenprint 1972
Museum of Fine Arts -
Joseph Cornell, American, 1903-1972 Untitled (Nude) 1961 Assemblage: photograph, glass, paper, mounted to solid support;
-
Joseph Cornell Untitled (Hotel du Nord) Screenprint in five colors with varnish stencil 1972
-
Untitled (Hotel-night sky), Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972) , circa 1950-1952, Mixed media sculpture box
-
Vaghe Stelle dell’Orsa (The Trajectory of Ursa Major), Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972) , 1966, Mixed media sculpture box
-
Joseph Cornell - Ice 1966 photomechanical repr Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Edward Hicks - The Cornell Farm 1848 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Joseph Cornell - La Ricordanza 1964 mixed media National Gallery of Art American
-
Joseph Cornell - Now, Voyager. . . 1966 photomechanical repr Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - The Seaside c. 1955 printed papers, colo Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - The Storm that Never Came c. 1953 mixed media on paper The Maier Museum of Art American
-
Joseph Cornell - Shadow Box c. 1954-1956 wood, gesso, paper b Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - Sand Fountain c. 1957-1959 gesso, oil, photomec Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - Medici Princess c. 1952 painted wood, photom Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - Reentry From Space late 1950's wood, paint, gesso, Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - Suite de la Longitude 1955-1957 painted wood, printe Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - The Uncertainty Principle 1966 photomechanical repr Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - Radar Astronomy 1952-56 mixed media New Orleans Museum of Art American
-
Joseph Cornell - L'Economiste Francais 1966 photomechanical repr Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - Sand Fountain 1948 construction National Gallery of Art American
-
Joseph Cornell - Sand Fountain 20th century wood, sand, glass, w University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - Suzy's Sun (for Judy Tyler) 1957 mixed-media construc North Carolina Museum of Art American
-
Joseph Cornell - Untitled (Bebe Marie) 1940's papered and painted The Museum of Modern Art American
-
Joseph Cornell - Sorrows Of Young Werther 1966 photomechanical repr Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - Taglioni's Jewel Casket 1940 wooden box covered The Museum of Modern Art American
-
Joseph Cornell - Object (Roses des vents) 1942-53 wooden box with twen The Museum of Modern Art American
-
Joseph Cornell - Hotel Boule-D'Or c. 1957 box construction of Hirshhorn Museum American
-
Joseph Cornell - Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery 1943 mixed media Des Moines Art Center American
-
Joseph Cornell - Central Park Carrousel, in Memoriam 1950 construction in wood The Museum of Modern Art American
-
Thomas Cornell Pig Etching 1960
-
Thomas Cornell L. B. (Portrait of Leonard Baskin) Etching 1964
-
Joseph Cornell - Caravaggio Prince, Medici Slot Machine Variant c. 1950 box construction and Corcoran Gallery of Art American
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Cornell Capa Title: Untitled Date: n.d. Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.9-1/2 x W.13-7/8
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Cornell Capa Title: Untitled Date: n.d. Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.6-5/16 x W.9-1/2
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Cornell Capa Title: Untitled Date: about 1962 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.14 x
-
J. F. Dulles Funeral, Cornell Capa (Hungary, born 1918)  (Artist), 1959, printed 1966, Gelatin-silver print
-
Joesph Cornell - Untitled n.d. Collage on cardboard Miami Art Museum American
-
Joesph Cornell - Cassiopeia c. 1957 paper, metal, and ph High Museum of Art American
-
Joseph Margulies Portrait of Joseph Pennell Lithograph 1925
-
Joesph Cornell - Soap Bubble Set 1948 mixed-media The Art Institute of Chicago American
Museum of Fine Arts -
©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Katherine Cornell USA, 1947 Photograph,
-
Les adieux de Joseph (18e siècle) by anonyme
Museum of Fine Arts -
© 1971 Harry Roseman ; Harry Roseman, American, Born in 1945 Back of Cornell 1971
-
Paul Joseph Rauschmayr Maximilian Joseph, King of Bavaria 18th - 19th century
-
Emil Pirchan The Legend of St. Joseph/Joseph has been brought in and dances. Lithograph 1922
-
Saint Joseph assis tenant l'Enfant dans ses bras ; reprise de la tête Joseph (17e siècle) by anonyme
-
Joesph Cornell - Untitled (Butterfly Habitat) c. 1940 mixed-media The Art Institute of Chicago American
-
Joesph Cornell - A New Scale of Stellar Distances n.d. Mixed media box cons Miami Art Museum American
-
Emil Pirchan The Legend of St. Joseph/Joseph in chains, waits for his execution Lithograph 1922
-
JOSEPH ET LA FEMME DE PUTIPHAR ; OU LA CHASTETE DE JOSEPH (4e quart 16e siècle ; 1er quart 17e siècle) by SPADA Lionello
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Story of Joseph, cassone panel Biagio di Antonio (Italian, Florentine, active 1446-1516)Tempera on wood;
-
Louis-Joseph-Boniface Defré, Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (Belgium, Namur, 1833 - 1898) , 1858, Lithograph
-
EYGUIERES - ORATOIRE ST JOSEPH - CHEMIN ST JOSEPH (1921 entre ; 1950 et) by AMIS DES ORATOIRES (éditeur)
-
Francesco Solimena - The Death of St. Joseph c. 1699-1700 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts Italian
-
Oswald Birley - The Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain PC, MP 1937 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
-
Jacob Eichholtz - Joseph Leman c. 1808 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
-
Ammi Phillips - Joseph Slade 1816 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Thomas Sully - Joseph Dugan 1810 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Augustus John - Joseph E. Widener 1921 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
Click on any of the links below to read about artnews or exhibitions related to Cornell

Denver Art Museum: Cornell Capa: A Retrospective
...
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University: Meiji Photography
...
Peabody Essex Museum: Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
"Joseph Cornell was an extraordinary artist whose work will capture the interest and imagination of all who see it. While self-taught, he was among the most influential artists of the 20th century and his work is renowned for fusing art, culture, ...
Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center: Apple TART: Virtual Tart meets the Big Apple Sponsored by Visual Arts League
Through having their work on the Virtual TART site they have hit the world. Dale Copeland has packed some of everyones artwork into 4 big suitcases and brought it to New York. Complete with photos of the a...
River Gallery: Call for Artists: Great Lakes Region - Juried Exhibition
History River Gallery, a fine art gallery formerly located “upstairs” in historic downtown Chelsea has just completed a 3,200 square foot renovation of an historic 1898 Main Street building. Since their beginnings in 2000 the gallery has hosted...
Global Cafe: DnA Factory Present the Fluffer Show
The fluffer show is a showcase for not only their current crop of installations but also amassing some of their showbiz chums each to take a little turn in music and spectacle. This is a multi disciplined, multi national hum dinger hot doggie c...
OBORO: Brad Todd: Screen
Beginning with the telescope to early TV signals, vision over distance has gradually become action over distance and has supplanted earlier models of perceiving and engaging with the world. In Screen's Cornell-esque scenario resides the blurred an...
Rubin Museum of Art: Mandala: The Perfect Circle - Buddhist Cosmic Diagrams Come to Life
The exhibition is the first of three in The Cosmologies Series, the museum’s ten-month-long investigation of how different cultures have visually represented the universe, from the solar system to the self.  The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) hou...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Elaine Kurtz: Alluvial Paintings
Today, contemporary painters incorporate into their work media as various as flour, salt, perfume and chocolate in an effort to challenge our expectations and to invigorate the traditional...
New York Society of Women Artist: Members Exhibition at Weill Cornell Medical Library
Painting, mixed media, prints and sculpture will be featured. Both nature and space are explored through realism, abstract and non-objective statements and conceptual pieces. On view will be delicate watercolors, bold acrylics and oils as we...
First Street Gallery: The Middle East Landscapes: Work by David Hewitt
First Street Gallery accepts submissions from artists for review. Applications are reviewed at membership meetings every 4-6 weeks. To apply artists must bring four to six original works of art to the gallery at 5:45 p.m. on the day of the meeting...
National Academy: Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950
One of the most revolutionary artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism still exerts a strong appeal today, more than fifty years after its heyday. The profound influence that this world of fantasy and dream had on a...
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Seasons of Western Pennsylvania: The Photography of Donald M. Robinson
Robinson is well known for his photographs of people, landscapes, and animal life. He has traveled internationally, documenting the essence of exotic locales from Arctic glaciers to African deserts t...
University of Kentucky Art Museum: A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence
The exhibition also includes work from the Foundation’s former resident directors—Rudy Autio, David Cornell, Ken Ferguson, Carol Roorbach, David Shaner, Kurt Weiser, and Peter Voulkos—as well as by Josh DeWeese, the current resident director. ...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art
The exhibition begins with a powerful Picasso drawing of a head dated 1906. Then come a variety of experimental works by George Grosz, Paul Klee, Georges Roualt, and Wyndham Lewis, who represent some of the advanced artistic movements of the 1920s...
Hibel Museum of Art: Hibel Museum of Art Opens Anew
Hibel, who will be 83 in January, has been painting professionally nearly 60 years since her Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship and graduation from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in 1940. Her work has been exhibited in prestigious mus...
626 Gallery: Katy Allgeyer: Saints and Sinners
A typical image from the series depicts Jesus Christ with a fortune that states, “Good things are being said about you/ Peking Noodle Company”. Additionally, the Christian holy cards have been arranged in classic Tibetan mandala formations and the...
Avenue Art Gallery: Call for Artists: 2002 National Small Works Painting Exhibition
Entry Specifications * Visual artists residing within the United States may submit no more than four pieces for one entry fee.
* Works may be no larger than 16" x 20" in dimension.
* Two dimensional painting work will be accepte...
Laguna Art Museum: Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice
Theorist Donna Haraway coined a portion of the title, Cyborg Manifesto. She wrote, the cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity. However when boundaries are being transgressed and when fusions create new entit...
Portland Museum of Art: Andre Kertesz: On Reading
Born in Hungary, Kertész’s journey as a photographer began in 1912, just before being drafted into the army. After returning to Budapest in 1915, Kertész then moved to Paris in 1925. It was there, among literary and avant-garde artistic circles, t...
Paul Engle Center for Arts: Expressions in Abstract : Abby Jones
Abstract expressionism can be defined as a style expressing the artist's ideas or sensations in a manner that, at first glance, appears to be a random, spontaneous application of paint. "The idea that abstract expressionists merely splatter...
Xanadu: Ward Yoshimoto: It’s Personal
During his residence at The MacDowell Colony in 2004 the artist attempted to remove the preciousness of the used object and the obvious personal connection to them out of his work. What he discovered is that because of the process and choice of ma...
Griffin Contemporary: Enrique Martinez Celaya: The October Cycle
Margo Timmins from the musical band Cowboy Junkies will perform at the reception. An enthusiast of Martinez Celaya's work, Timmins will sing an a capella version of the traditional "Mining for Gold" -a song that resonates deeply with the paintings...
Kunsthalle Fridericianum: Museum of Contemporary African Art and More : Meschac Gaba
Meschac Gaba The Museum of Contemporary African Art consists of museum rooms such as, for example, a library, a shop, a restaurant, a salon as well as a wedding- and a game room. After being presented individually worldwide, these 12 install...
Bayly Art Museum: The Heritage of Our Ancestors: Works by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Kay WalkingStick

Quick-to-See Smith was born in 1940 on the Indian Mission Flathead Reservation in Montana. She earned a degree in art education from Framingham State College, MA, in 1976 and an M.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1980. She exhibit...
Museum of Fine Arts: Call for Artists: The Show - Southwest Juried Exhibition
Submissions in all media are welcome. The selections for THE SHOW will be made by three jurors: Terezita Romo, Susan Rothenberg and W. Jackson Rushing III, Ph.D. Submission deadline: January 6, 2003 Exhibition dates: June 6-August 31...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: The City of Sardis: Approaches in Graphic Recording
This exhibit is about the topographic landscape and historic architecture of Sardis, and their graphic recording since the middle of the eighteenth century. Architectural and topographical features of the site have attracted visitors for different...
Mobius: Maternal Exposure - Don't Forget the Lunches: A Sculptural Installation by Monica Bock and Poetry by Zofia Burr
The lead bags gather in rows in one half of the exhibition space, spreading across the floor in the order the original lunches were prepared. Inserted intermittently, small lead sheet plaques replace lunch b...
Sara Tecchia Roma New York: Christina McPhee: La Conchita Mon Amour
For the past 18 months, McPhee has been visiting La Conchita, taking photographs of the disaster's vernacular shrines to the dead on the site of the mudslide--chain link barriers a rubble of mud, destroyed house frames, roofs, retaining walls, pla...
Museum of Modern Art: The Dream of Utopia/Utopia of the Dream
One extreme was defined by the pure abstractions of painters such as Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who sought the systematic restructuring of reality through emphasis on the logic of form. For example, the spare black and white ...
Association for Visual Arts: Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds
In the past decade HEAP OF BIRDS has traveled around the world conducting research into the similarities of icons used by indigenous peoples in Australia, Africa, North and South America and Europe. He has co...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA: Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure
Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, the exhibition was on view at the Whitney Museum from February 22, 2007– June 3, 2007 and will be on view at MOCA Grand Aven...
Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography: Of Kith and Kin: Davida Nemeroff, Susan E. Evans, Cynthia Greig and Richard H. Smith
Susan E. Evans was born as Juanna Ramos in April 1966 in Yankton, South Dakota. Upon adoption, she was given the name Susan Eileen Evans. Starting her photographic studies at the age of eight, Evans received her BFA in both Photography and Hologra...
MASS MoCA: Mark Taylor: Grave Matters
In Grave Matters, Williams College Professor Mark Taylor and photographer Deitrich Christian Lammerts present beautiful and disturbing black and white photographs of the gravesites of 150 artists, architects, writers, philosophers, and musician...
Alameda Art Laboratory: Relational Architectures: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
In the past fourteen years Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has developed interactive art installations that transform urban spaces and create connective environments. Using movement sensors, computer graphics, positional sound, Internet interfaces, tele-robo...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts: Valentina DuBasky: Mongolian Horses and Siberian Tigers - New Paintings on Paper and Canvas
She has written about these new pieces; "Ancient Mongolians worshiped "the clear blue sky," and in Mongolian and Chinese myth, horses appear as symbols of power, elegance and action. My paintings are inspired by field drawings made of Mongolian h...
Milwaukee Art Museum: Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
The exhibition is an appealing blend of the nostalgic, the familiar and the futuristic and provides a compelling retrospective of the evolution of American popular and material culture from the 1930s to the 70s. The exhibition presents four time ...
Haus der Kunst: Yayoi Kusama. Dots Obsession - Love Transformed into Dots
Yayoi Kusama, b. 1929 in Nagano, Japan, worked during the Second World War in a factory that made parachutes. In 1957 Kusama went to the United States, where, in the late 1960s, she staged numerous happenings: body painting festivals, fashion show...
Skirball Cultural Center: Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York
While Myers is not nearly as well known as Paul Revere, who worked in Boston, Myers, like Revere, is counted among a select group of highly respected merchant-artisans of the time. His work is found in major museum collections including the Metrop...

Further Artwork and Information:

WebMuseum: Cornell, Joseph
Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell Online
Norton Museum of Art: Joseph Cornell: Box Constructions and Collages
Amazon.com: Books: Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday
Joseph Cornell artist portrait, brief biography and art
Online NewsHour: Joseph Cornell-- December 30, 1997
Amazon.com: Books: Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema (Yale Publications in the History of Art)
Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Cornell
HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results

Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information: