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Joseph Cornell
(
American
, 1903–1972)
Joseph Cornell
The Smile in the Gift Shop,
ca. 1960
Price on Request
Biography
Timeline
Exhibitions
Literature
Timeline
1903
Born in Nyack, NY
1917 - 1921
Attended Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1972
Died in Queens, NY
Exhibitions
2012
Automaton, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (group)
2008
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Selections from the collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
2007
Joseph Cornell, Jirí Kolár, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Andromeda Hotel: The Art of Joseph Cornell, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (solo)
Surrealism - Theater of the Mind, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
2005
Joseph Cornell - Boxes and Collages, L&M Arts, New York, NY (solo)
Mapping Space, MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2004
Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
2003 - 2004
Joseph Cornell at the Hudson River Museum, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (solo)
2003
Joseph Cornell - Collages, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Joseph Cornell Collages, Jonathan Novak Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2002 - 2003
Joseph Cornell: Toys, Objects, Box Constructions, Collages, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2002
The Spirit of Joseph Cornell, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
Collage - Abstract Expressionist & Pop, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
2001
About Objects, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2000
Inside out: reality or fiction?, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Joseph Cornell, A Memoir, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
Surrealism - The Two Private Eyes, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1998
A Sense for Scale II. The Art of the Miniature, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
1970
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
1967
Dada, Surrealism, and their Heritage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1966
An Exhibition of Works by Joseph Cornell, Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA (solo)
Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
1962
Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
1961
The Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1953
Annual Survey Exhibition of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1952
Fifteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1949
Work inspired by the ballet, La Lanterne Magique du Ballet Romantique, Hugo Gallery, New York, NY
1939
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1936
Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1935
American Painting and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th, & 20th Centuries, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1932
Surréalisme, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
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Literature
2008
Wechsler, Jeffrey and Townsend Ludington. Image in the Box: From Cornell to Contemporary. New York, NY: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2008 (catalogue)
2007
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe. Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
1967
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell. New York, NY: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1967 (catalogue)
1966
Hopps, Walter, James Demetrion, preface; Fairfield Porter. An Exhibition of Works by Joseph Cornell. Pasadenam CA: Pasadena Art Museum, 1966 (catalogue)
