Penny Arcade
Joseph Cornell
1970
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View on museum website →Medium
collage in artist's gilt frame
Dimensions
sheet: 36.2 × 26.04 cm (14 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection
Accession Number
1992.28.4
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...