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Sun Box

Sun Box

Joseph Cornell

Artist
Joseph Cornell
(American, 1903 - 1972)
Title
Sun Box
Date
1956
Medium
Metal, glass, cork, wood, driftwood, clay, paper, and paint
Dimensions
10 1/8 x 15 1/4 x 3 1/3 in. overall
Credit
Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection
Accession No.
2012.54.12.1
Classification
Sculpture
Geography
United States

Related

sold by the artist, Joseph Cornell, to Felix Landau [of Felix Landau Gallery] (Beverly Hills, CA); sold by Felix Landau [of Felix Landau Gallery] (Bevery Hills, CA) to Frederick Weisman; sold by Frederick Weisman to Jane Wade (New York, NY); 8 May 1964, sold by Jane Wade (New York, NY) to Terese and Alvin S. Lane (New Rochelle, NY); 2007, deposited on long-term loan to the Chazen Museum of Art; 2012, bequeathed to the Chazen Museum of Art

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1995. pp. 4pp. 4, 83, cat. no. 12.1; pl. 8
  • Chazen Museum of Art. "Modernist Sculpture: The Terese & Alvin S. Lane Collection." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2008. no. 9
  • Paune, Darwin Reid. "Materials and Craft of the Scenic Model." Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976. no. 58
  • America Illustrated, Soviet iss. 149 (March 1969): 49. no. 49
  • America Illustrated, Poland iss. 122 (1969): 49 no. 49
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Joseph Cornell." New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1967. no. 46
  • Kroll, Jack. "Paradise Regained." Newsweek (June 5, 1967) 86. no. 86
  • Kramer, Hilton. "The Poetic Shadow-Box World of Joseph Cornell." The New York Times (May 6, 1967) 27. no. 27
  • Bourdon, David. "Imagined Universe." Life Magazine (Dec. 15, 1967) 52. p. 52
  • Chazen Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 25, No. 2, July-December 2008. p. 5

  • Modernist Sculpture: The Terese & Alvin S. Lane Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/19/2008–9/28/2008
  • Lane Collection, The: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/30/1995–12/3/1995
  • Joseph Cornell: Museum of Modern Art, The, 11/17/1980–3/21/1982
  • Joseph Cornell: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 5/4/1967–6/25/1967

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