Untitled (Paul and Virginia)
c. 1946-1948
Artist, American, 1903 - 1972
Joseph Cornell
Attributed to
East Building Upper Level, Gallery 415-B
Artwork overview
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Medium
box construction (bird’s nest, eggs, and collage)
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Credit Line
Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Heidi Berry
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Dimensions
overall: 31.75 × 25.08 × 11.11 cm (12 1/2 × 9 7/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2023.124.24
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
David Crabb, Chicago, IL; purchased 1 December 1996 by Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1948
Objects by Joseph Cornell, Copley Galleries, 1948, no. 26.
1976
Joseph Cornell, Leo Castelli Gallery; Richard L. Feigen and Company; James Corcoran Gallery; New York, 1976, no. 33.
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. IX, repro.
2006
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2006-2007, no.93.
Bibliography
1977
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell. New York, 1977: fig. 1, 116.
1982
Keller, Marjorie. The Theme of Childhood in the Films of Jean Cocteau, Joseph Cornell, and Stan Brakhage. New York, 1982: 182, n. 52.
1983
Pennington, Estill Curtis (Buck). "Joseph Cornell: Dime Store Connoisseur." Archives of American Art Journal 23 no. 3 (1983): 17-18, fig. 12.
1998
Blair, Lindsay. Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order. London, 1998: 93-97, fig. 53.
2000
Bright, Betty Taylor. No Longer Innocent: The Book Arts in America, 1960 to 1980. Minneapolis, 2000: 131-132, 373, 393, fig. 2.9.
2001
Foer, Jonathan Safran, ed. _ A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell_. New York, 2001: repro. inside back cover.
2002
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams. New York, 2002: 46- 48, repro, 151.
Maxwell, Richard. The Victorian Illustrated Book. Charlottesville and London, 2002: 405-407, 410, fig. 10, 419, 421, n. 21.
2003
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, Richard Vine, and Robert Lehrman. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay, Eterniday. Washington, 2003: 94-97, no.20, 247.
Baverstock, Alison. Joseph Cornell: Secrets in a Box. London, 2003: 7, 24, repro.
2007
Mavor, Carol. Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott. Durham, NC, 2007: 215, repro, 323.
2010
Allison, Jane. The Surreal House. Exh. cat. Barbican Art Gallery, 2010: 170-171, repro.
2012
Aleluia, Catarina Casca. A Poetica do Site Specific. Lisbon, PRT, 2012: 143, fig. 2.
2013
Ramond, Sylvie and François-René Martin. "Musées, Muses: Miscellanées sur Joseph Cornell." Joseph Cornell et les Surréalistes à New York Exh. cat. Musee des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Lyon, FR, 2013: 278, details, fig. 2.01, 283, 284, fig. 2.08, 285-287.
2015
Affron, Matthew, and Sylvie Ramond, eds. Joseph Cornell and Surrealism. Charlottesville, VA, 2015: 58, 4.01, 4.04, 65-71, 4.05-4.07, 4.10, 178.