Joseph Cornell

Weather Satellites
c. 1965

A mixed media artwork featuring a hummingbird in flight in front of a large, capped jar, set against a blue sky background. The scene includes geometric shapes, with a green polyhedral object floating in the upper right corner and variously colored shapes at the bottom. The piece is encased in a weathered wooden frame.

Not on view

Date
c. 1965

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Collage on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 11 1/2 × 9in. (29.2 × 22.9 cm) Overall: 15 5/8 × 12 9/16 × 1 3/4in. (39.7 × 31.9 × 4.4 cm)

Accession number
82.23

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Richard Brown Baker, the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Felicia Meyer Marsh Purchase Fund, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Marsteller and an anonymous donor

API
artworks/375

Exhibitions

Real/Surreal

Oct 6, 2011–Feb 12, 2012
Landscape

Mar 24–Sept 18, 2005
De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection (2nd floor–Oct 2002)

Oct 9, 2002–Mar 1, 2003

Joseph Cornell
8 works in the collection

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Joseph Cornell

Weather Satellites c. 1965

Exhibitions

Joseph Cornell 8 works in the collection

Weather Satellites
c. 1965

Joseph Cornell
8 works in the collection