It would he hard to find a more painfully private man than Joseph Cornell. The American assemblage artist lived his entire life in Flushing, Queens, with a disabled brother and tyrannical mother.

Joseph Cornell, Egypte de Mlle. Cleo de Merode: cours elementaire d’histoire naturelle (Miss Cleo de Merode’s Egypt: Elementary Natural History Course), 1940. Courtesy National Gallery of Art “This ...

Collectors give the museum 27 box constructions and collages by the homebody artist who rarely left Queens but became a central figure in 20th century art. By Deborah Solomon In her new memoir, “The ...

In his personal papers, as in his art, Joseph Cornell embraced life's evanescence. Known mainly for his shadow box constructions, Cornell documented his passion for "exquisite surprises"—the poignant ...

This weekend, the Peabody Essex Museum opens "Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination," a retrospective of the artist showcasing close to 200 boxes, collages, films and objects from Cornell's life.

UTOPIA PARKWAY: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon. From Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 1997, 426 pp., $30.00 hardcover. Artist's lives are seldom exemplary. Instead of ...

The Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) presents two special exhibitions — Miniature Worlds: Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Yayoi Kusama and John O’Reilly: Studio Visitations — and two installations — The ...

In Joseph Cornell's boxes you meet two kinds of artist, the last of the romantics and a New York avant-gardist, an unlikely combination. Ingenious Cornell (1903-1972) was both at the same time. How ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) measure approximately 24.9 linear feet and date from 1804 to 1986 with the bulk of the material dating ...