Untitled (Medici Prince)
c. 1952
Joseph Cornell
Artist, American, 1903 - 1972
East Building Upper Level, Gallery E415
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 Jake Lehrman
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Dimensions
overall: 39.37 × 29.21 × 12.7 cm (15 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 5 in.)
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Accession Number
2023.124.20
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL); purchased 24 August 1992 by Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
Cornell in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1974, unnumbered checklist, repro.
1977
Joseph Cornell, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1977, unnumbered checklist.
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. XII, repro.
Bibliography
2002
Niedenthal, Simon. "Learning from the Cornell Box." Leonardo 35 no. 2 (2002): 249, fig. 1.
2003
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, Richard Vine, and Robert Lehrman. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay, Eterniday. Washington, 2003: 107, details, 115, fig. 32.