The first major Cornell retrospective since 1980, Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination brings together more than 170 of the artist's box constructions, collages, dossiers, films and graphic designs from public and private collections. The exhibition is organized by ten themes, each of which represents a recurrent motif in Cornell's work. Please note: titles given to certain pieces here in this image gallery may vary from those you've seen before. Cornell almost never titled his work; Cornell scholars have, however, and are sometimes led make changes as new scholarship emerges.
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination was organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (where it premiered and was on view November 17, 2006-February 19, 2007) and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (April 28-August 19, 2007). Its third scheduled venue is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (October 6, 2007-January 6, 2008).
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