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Joseph Cornell
[American Assemblage Artist, 1903-1972]
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Joseph Cornell Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Joseph Cornell available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Click "View all" to see a total of 5 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 4 works by Cornell
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Joseph Cornell at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Soap Bubble Set (Ostend Hotel), ca.1958
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Phases de la Lune
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California Sand Fountain
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) How to Make a Rainbow, 1972
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina Untitled (Hotel de l'Etoile)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York The Admiral's Game
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Suzy's Sun, 1957
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Untitled (How to Make a Rainbow)
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Untitled, Soap Bubble Set
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Untitled (Shaker Box with Cylinders)
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Box of Untitled (with Spools), Sailors Box
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey Les Constellations Voisines de Pôle, ca.1950s
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Joseph Cornell at The Artchive
Joseph Cornell in the WebMuseum
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
The Design Space 4 works
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Joseph Cornell Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine Artist Dossier: Joseph Cornell
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 29): Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. The Joseph Cornell papers online
The New York Observer "62 Cornell Collages Are Remembrances Of Imaginary Past", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "Great Joseph Cornell Was Shadow Player, Christian Mystic", article by Hilton Kramer
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