Joseph Cornell
Wanderlust
04 Jul - 27 Sep 2015
Joseph Cornell
Naples, c. 1942.
Box construction.
28.6 x 17.2 x 12.1 cm
. The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photo The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman. Photography: Quicksilver Photographers, LLC © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Naples, c. 1942.
Box construction.
28.6 x 17.2 x 12.1 cm
. The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photo The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman. Photography: Quicksilver Photographers, LLC © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Joseph Cornell
Toward the Blue Peninsula: for Emily Dickinson, c. 1953.
Box construction. 36.8 x 26 x 14 cm. The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photo The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photography: Quicksilver Photographers, LLC © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Toward the Blue Peninsula: for Emily Dickinson, c. 1953.
Box construction. 36.8 x 26 x 14 cm. The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photo The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photography: Quicksilver Photographers, LLC © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Joseph Cornell
Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy), 1942-52.
Box construction
35.4 x 28.4 x 9.8 cm
Glenstone. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art.com, courtesy Glenstone. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy), 1942-52.
Box construction
35.4 x 28.4 x 9.8 cm
Glenstone. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art.com, courtesy Glenstone. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Joseph Cornell
Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1943.
Box construction
39.4 x 28.3 x 10.8 cm.
Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 1975.27 Photo Des Moines Art Center. Photography: Rich Sanders © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1943.
Box construction
39.4 x 28.3 x 10.8 cm.
Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 1975.27 Photo Des Moines Art Center. Photography: Rich Sanders © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Joseph Cornell
Palace, 1943.
Box construction
26.7 x 50.5 x 13 cm.
The Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: The Menil Collection, Houston. Photography: Hickey-Robertson. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015. Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Palace, 1943.
Box construction
26.7 x 50.5 x 13 cm.
The Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: The Menil Collection, Houston. Photography: Hickey-Robertson. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015. Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Joseph Cornell
Untitled (Celestial Navigation), 1956-58.
Box construction.
30.8 x 43.2 x 9.2 cm.
The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photo The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman. Photography: Quicksilver Photographers, LLC © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Untitled (Celestial Navigation), 1956-58.
Box construction.
30.8 x 43.2 x 9.2 cm.
The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photo The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman. Photography: Quicksilver Photographers, LLC © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
Joseph Cornell
Untitled Object (Mona Lisa), c. 1940-42.
Box construction
3.5 x 7.6 cm
The Collection of Marguerite and Robert Hoffman. Photo Brad Flowers. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015. Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Untitled Object (Mona Lisa), c. 1940-42.
Box construction
3.5 x 7.6 cm
The Collection of Marguerite and Robert Hoffman. Photo Brad Flowers. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015. Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
JOSEPH CORNELL
Wanderlust
4 July — 27 September 2015
From a basement in New York, Joseph Cornell channelled his limitless imagination into some of the most original art of the 20th century. Step into his beguiling world at this landmark exhibition.
Cornell hardly ventured beyond New York State, yet the notion of travel was central to his art. His imaginary voyages began as he searched Manhattan’s antique bookshops and dime stores, collecting a vast archive of paper ephemera and small objects to make his signature glass-fronted ‘shadow boxes’.
These miniature masterpieces transform everyday objects into spellbinding treasures. Together they reveal his fascination with subjects from astronomy and cinema to literature and ornithology and especially his love of European culture, from the Romantic ballet to Renaissance Italy.
Wanderlust brings together 80 of Cornell’s most remarkable boxes, assemblages, collages and films, some never before seen outside the USA. Entirely self-taught, the independence of Cornell’s creative voice won the admiration of artists from Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealists, to Robert Motherwell and the Abstract Expressionists, with echoes of his work felt in Pop and Minimalist art.
Wanderlust is a long overdue celebration of an incomparable artist, a man the New York Times called “a poet of light; an architect of memory-fractured rooms and a connoisseur of stars, celestial and otherwise.”
Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust is organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Wanderlust
4 July — 27 September 2015
From a basement in New York, Joseph Cornell channelled his limitless imagination into some of the most original art of the 20th century. Step into his beguiling world at this landmark exhibition.
Cornell hardly ventured beyond New York State, yet the notion of travel was central to his art. His imaginary voyages began as he searched Manhattan’s antique bookshops and dime stores, collecting a vast archive of paper ephemera and small objects to make his signature glass-fronted ‘shadow boxes’.
These miniature masterpieces transform everyday objects into spellbinding treasures. Together they reveal his fascination with subjects from astronomy and cinema to literature and ornithology and especially his love of European culture, from the Romantic ballet to Renaissance Italy.
Wanderlust brings together 80 of Cornell’s most remarkable boxes, assemblages, collages and films, some never before seen outside the USA. Entirely self-taught, the independence of Cornell’s creative voice won the admiration of artists from Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealists, to Robert Motherwell and the Abstract Expressionists, with echoes of his work felt in Pop and Minimalist art.
Wanderlust is a long overdue celebration of an incomparable artist, a man the New York Times called “a poet of light; an architect of memory-fractured rooms and a connoisseur of stars, celestial and otherwise.”
Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust is organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.