Open Studio: Joseph Cornell
Sat, Apr 13, 2013
2–4 pm
Joseph Cornell, Celestial Navigation, c. 1958. Box construction with wood, glasses, marbles, plaster head, painted cork ball, metal rods, nails, paper collage, tempera, and painted glass, 9 5/8 × 16 1/4 × 4 in. (24.5 × 41.3 × 10.2 cm) overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 60th Anniversary Gift of Estée Lauder Inc. 92.24a-k
Art © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Whitney Studio
Joseph Cornell, whose work is on view in American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe, filled boxes with found objects that represented places and things that interested him. Come to the Whitney Studio to create your own three-dimensional environment inspired by Cornell's work.
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