Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Glenn, Shawnee Mission

Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Daniel Varenne, Switzerland

Private Collection, Sweden

James Goodman Gallery, New York

Acquired from above by the present owner

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Joseph Cornell, January - February 1972

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Joseph Cornell, October - December 2002, cat. no. 22

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, World in a Box, March - May 2012

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Fall Selections, September - October 2013

Joseph Cornell was a self-taught artist, recluse, and master of Assemblage. Influenced by as many subjects as he included in his artworks—American Transcendentalists, European Surrealism, Hollywood, ballet, the French Symbolists—Cornell charged humble materials with intrigue, mystery and unforeseen complexity, combining them in intimate box constructions and collages. From the moment of a storied meeting at Cornell's Utopia Parkway home and studio in 1962, he became a central figure in Allan Stone's collection and gallery program, with many of the artist's most significant works passing through Allan Stone's hands. Cornell has been the subject of countless exhibitions. He was shown alongside his friend, Marcel Duchamp, in the 1936 exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada & Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, honored in 1967 with a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and an exhibition of his collages at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1971. His work is found in numerous museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Gallery, London, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.

Please note that this work will be exhibited at Allan Stone Projects.

Joseph Cornell was a self-taught artist, recluse, and master of Assemblage. Influenced by as many subjects as he included in his artworks—American Transcendentalists, European Surrealism, Hollywood, ballet, the French Symbolists—Cornell charged humble materials with intrigue, mystery and unforeseen complexity, combining them in intimate box constructions and collages. From the moment of a storied meeting at Cornell's Utopia Parkway home and studio in 1962, he became a central figure in Allan Stone's collection and gallery program, with many of the artist's most significant works passing through Allan Stone's hands. Cornell has been the subject of countless exhibitions. He was shown alongside his friend, Marcel Duchamp, in the 1936 exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada & Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, honored in 1967 with a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and an exhibition of his collages at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1971. His work is found in numerous museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Gallery, London, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.

JOSEPH CORNELL | UNTITLED (BLUE SAND FOUNTAIN)