Artwork overview
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Medium
box construction (black eglomise border with black velvet)
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Credit Line
Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Charlotte Lehrman
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Dimensions
overall: 46.36 × 31.43 × 9.53 cm (18 1/4 × 12 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
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Accession Number
2023.124.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; gift to James Ogle [1918-2005];[1] (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York); purchased 21 May 1996 by Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC.
[1] Ogle was a commercial photographer who collaborated with Cornell in 1938 and 1939, photographing tabletop scenarios arranged by the artist. See Lynda Rosco Hartigan, Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, Salem 2007: 76, 78-79, 97.
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