Circe III (Surface and Volume in Nature)
1961 - 1966
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cut-and-pasted offset printed paper and paint on hardboard, in artist's frame
Dimensions
overall: 33.34 × 40.96 cm (13 1/8 × 16 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Aimee Lehrman
Accession Number
2023.124.3
About the Artist
Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) was an American artist and filmmaker best known for his poetic assemblage boxes — small, glass-fronted shadow boxes containing carefully arranged collections of found objects that create intimate, dreamlike worlds. Born in Nyack, New York, he had no formal art training and spent most of his life in a modest house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens, caring for his disa...