L’Égypte de Mlle. Cléo de Mérode: cours élémentaire d’histoire naturelle (Miss Cléo de Mérode’s Egypt: Elementary Natural History Course)
1940
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box construction
Dimensions
overall: 11.75 × 26.99 × 18.42 cm (4 5/8 × 10 5/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Lynda Hartigan
Accession Number
2023.124.7
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...