Untitled (Paul and Virginia)
c. 1946-1948
Artist, American, 1903 - 1972
Joseph Cornell
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
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, pl. 53.
Bibliography
1977
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell. New York, 1977: no.18, 116.
1998
Blair, Lindsay. Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order. London, 1998: 93-95, illus.53, 96-97.
2001
Foer, Jonathan Safran, ed. _ A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell_. New York, 2001: repro.
2002
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams. New York, 2002: 46, repro., 47, 48, 151.
2003
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, Richard Vine, and Robert Lehrman. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay, Eterniday. Washington, 2003: 94-97, no.20, 247.
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.