short biography

Joseph Cornell (b. 1903 Nyack/NY; d. 1972, Flushing/NY) was a painter, sculptor, and underground filmmaker. He worked in collage and film, though he is best known for his signature shadow box constructions.

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collection/s

ADDISON Andover Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Cantor Arts Center, Stanford Columbia Museum of Art Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington Crystal Bridges, Bentonville Des Moines Art Center ° Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington High Museum of Art, Atlanta ° Honolulu Museum of Art Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura Kunstmuseen Krefeld MAMAC Nice ° MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Menil Collection, Houston Modern, Fort Worth Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid ' Museu Berardo, Lisbon Musée Cantini, Marseille National Gallery of Art, Washington ° Perez Art Museum Miami Portland Art Museum Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln Smithsonian Institution, Washington Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame The Art Institute of Chicago Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown .
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galleries

Acquavella Galleries, New York Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago Art & Public Cabinet, Genf Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York Greve - St. Moritz JONATHAN NOVAK, Los Angeles Karsten Greve - Köln Karsten Greve - Paris Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Van Doren Waxter, New York
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  • 28. Sep 04. Mar 2001
    Open Ends MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York