A Parrot for Juan Gris
winter 1953-1954
Artist, American, 1903 - 1972
Joseph Cornell
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
box construction
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Credit Line
Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Aimee Lehrman
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Dimensions
overall: 45.09 × 30.96 × 11.75 cm (17 3/4 × 12 3/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2023.124.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Gagosian Gallery, New York); purchased 10 November 1992 by Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC; gift 2023 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Joseph Cornell, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1967, unnumbered checklist.
1968
Boxes and Collages by Joseph Cornell, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA, 1968, no. 3.
1980
Joseph Cornell, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1980-1981; Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1981; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 1981; Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 1981; Musée de l'Art Moderne, Paris, 1981; Chicago Art Institute, 1982; Museum of Modern Art Catalogue, no. XXIV, repro.
1999
Joseph Cornell: Memories, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, 1999, unnumbered checklist.
2007
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2007; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007-2008; no. 131, repro.
2015
Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust, Royal Academy of Art, London; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; 2015-2016, no. 61, repro.
2018
Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2018, no. 1, repro.
Bibliography
1967
Kozloff, Max. "ART." The Nation (May 29, 1967): 701-702.
1978
D'Harnoncourt, Anne. "The Cubist Cockatoo: A Preliminary Exploration of Joseph Cornell's Homages to Juan Gris." Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 74 no. 321 (1978): 11, 13, repro.
2001
Foer, Jonathan Safran, ed. _ A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell_. New York, 2001: 182, repro.
2002
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams. New York, 2002: 100-101, repro.
2003
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, Richard Vine, and Robert Lehrman. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay, Eterniday. Washington, 2003: 134-135, repro, 255.
2005
Fenn, Julia Geraldine. Chance Encounters: The Construction of Meaning Through the Process of Assemblage in the Boxes of Joseph Cornell and the Contemporary Jewellery of Thomas Mann. Johannesburg, 2005: 21, 26-27, fig. 9.
2010
Boon, Marcus. In Praise of Copying. Camrbidge, MA, 2010: 143.