Untitled (Derby Hat)
Joseph Cornell
1972
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View on museum website →Medium
color photogravure
Dimensions
plate: 33.66 × 26.19 cm (13 1/4 × 10 5/16 in.) sheet: 24.29 × 37.78 cm (9 9/16 × 14 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Anonymous Gift
Accession Number
1982.92.11
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...