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Joseph Cornell

Les constellations voisines du pôle, 1961

East Building, Upper Level — Gallery 415-B

Medium

construction

Dimensions

overall: 20.3 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm (8 x 11 x 2 in.)

Credit Line

Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection

Accession Number

1991.218.2

Artists / Makers

Joseph Cornell (artist) American, 1903 - 1972

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Provenance

(Rose Fried Gallery, New York); sold 1962 to Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[1] gift 1991 to NGA.

[1] Provenance from The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection 1945 to 1995, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996: 237.

Associated Names

Meyerhoff, Robert E.

Exhibition History

1964: Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, 1964.

1966: Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.

1996: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 11, color repro.

2014: Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 20.

Bibliography

1980: Sundell, Nina. The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection 1958-1979. Baltimore, 1980: 12, repro.

1996: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 11.

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