Monday, October 24, 2011

Joseph Cornell Self-Portrait with Robert Delford Brown


Partially Destroyed Polaroid Self-Portrait by Joseph Cornell and R. D. Brown

Robert Delford Brown, Collaboration with Joseph Cornell, 1968.

From the RDB artist book, First Class Portraits. New York: The First National Church of the Exquisite Panic Press, 1973. Spiral-bound. 35 pages. 29 photographic reproductions of Brown's "portraits" of figures from the contemporary New York art scene. Portraits feature the artist's friends and contemporaries, including Allan Kaprow, John Coplans, Edward Kienholz, Joseph Cornell, John Russell, Suzy Gablik, the Colemans, Joanna Beall, H.C. Westermann, Larry Bell, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, Carolee Schneemann and others. With an introduction by A.D. Coleman, editor

Edition of 500 signed (most that I've seen by both Brown and Coleman) and numbered, most enclosed in a bubble mailer with Brown's address stamp.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Joseph Cornell - Portrait of Julien Levy


Portrait of Julien Levy, Daguerreotype-Object, 1939
Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972)
Assemblage with silvered glass, mirrored glass shards, black sand, gelatin silver prints, and other materials
Case: 5 3/16 x 4 1/8 x 1 inches; Frame: 11 x 10 x 2 1/8 inches
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Lynne and Harold Honickman Gift of the Julien Levy Collection, 2001.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Gallery (Joseph) Mixed Media Assemblage for Joseph Cornell


Artist: Jeff Roberts
Title: Gallery (Joseph)
Year: 2011
Mixed media assemblage (bamboo box, spray paint, urethane, wooden cubes, digital prints)
Size: 9 x 3 x 2.5 inches (not including base)

Monday, August 8, 2011

Joseph Cornell - Group Show at the Alan Gallery NYC 1958


Exhibition announcement. The Alan Gallery, New York, December 29,1958 - January 24, 1959; three-panel folder. Announcement for an exhibition including work by George Cohen, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Bruce Gilchrist, Jasper Johns, William King, Alfred Leslie, Corrado (i.e. Conrad) Marca-Relli, George L.K.Morris, Robert Motherwell, George Ortman, Robert Rauschenberg and Estaban Vicente; plus an essay "Beyond Painting" by an anonymous writer.

8.5" x 4" folded; 8.5" x 11" unfolded

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Joseph Cornell Exhibition Catalog - Monterey Mexico Oct 1992



Joseph Cornell Exhibition Catalog
Anos Cincuenta y Sesenta (50s and 60s)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
October 1992 - January 1993


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Joseph Cornell at Pace Gallery Oct. 1989


Joseph Cornell Exhibition Catalog
Pace Gallery, NYC
October 20, 1989
Approx. 8 x 10 inches, paperback, with a diecut window and frame on cover.

From the Pace web site:

The Pace Gallery: A Short History

The Pace Gallery was founded by Arne Glimcher in Boston in 1960. Three years later, the gallery relocated to New York, setting up its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. By the early 1980s, Pace was fully established as one of the city’s premier modern and contemporary art venues for painting, sculpture, video, and installation art. Over the years, Pace’s stable has grown to include major international artists and estates of the 20th and 21st centuries. The gallery has mounted nearly 700 exhibitions, including several scholarly shows that have traveled to museums, and has published more than 300 exhibition catalogs.

Marc Glimcher joined the gallery as Associate Director in 1985, and he has served as President since 1993. That same year, Pace partnered with Old Master dealer Wildenstein & Co. to form PaceWildenstein, an organization with the potential to show works of art from the Renaissance to the present. In April of 2010, Pace and Wildenstein announced that they would amicably dissolve the joint venture after 17 years, and that The Pace Gallery would again operate independently, although the companies jointly stated that they would continue to pursue business opportunities together.

Today, The Pace Gallery has expanded to include four galleries in New York and Pace Beijing, a 25,000 square foot gallery space in the heart of Beijing’s 798 Art District. The Pace umbrella also includes Pace/MacGill, specializing in photography; Pace Prints & Pace Master Prints, focusing on limited edition works on paper from the 15th to 21st centuries; and Pace Primitive, dedicated to African, Himalayan, Oceanic, and Native American tribal art. The Pace Gallery celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2010.

To coincide with this anniversary year, Pace has launched thepacegallery.com, an encyclopedic search-based site culled from the gallery’s extensive archives. The site is unlike that of any other art institution in its innovative search feature: it is built on its own search engine, so that visitors can type in a keyword and peruse a living archive of 50 years (and counting) of The Pace Gallery.

Joseph Cornell at Pace Gallery Dec. 1986


Joseph Cornell Exhibition Catalog
Pace Gallery, NYC
Dec 5, 1986
Approx. 8 x 10 inches, paperback, with a diecut window and frame on cover.

From the Pace web site:


The Pace Gallery: A Short History

The Pace Gallery was founded by Arne Glimcher in Boston in 1960. Three years later, the gallery relocated to New York, setting up its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. By the early 1980s, Pace was fully established as one of the city’s premier modern and contemporary art venues for painting, sculpture, video, and installation art. Over the years, Pace’s stable has grown to include major international artists and estates of the 20th and 21st centuries. The gallery has mounted nearly 700 exhibitions, including several scholarly shows that have traveled to museums, and has published more than 300 exhibition catalogs.

Marc Glimcher joined the gallery as Associate Director in 1985, and he has served as President since 1993. That same year, Pace partnered with Old Master dealer Wildenstein & Co. to form PaceWildenstein, an organization with the potential to show works of art from the Renaissance to the present. In April of 2010, Pace and Wildenstein announced that they would amicably dissolve the joint venture after 17 years, and that The Pace Gallery would again operate independently, although the companies jointly stated that they would continue to pursue business opportunities together.

Today, The Pace Gallery has expanded to include four galleries in New York and Pace Beijing, a 25,000 square foot gallery space in the heart of Beijing’s 798 Art District. The Pace umbrella also includes Pace/MacGill, specializing in photography; Pace Prints & Pace Master Prints, focusing on limited edition works on paper from the 15th to 21st centuries; and Pace Primitive, dedicated to African, Himalayan, Oceanic, and Native American tribal art. The Pace Gallery celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2010.

To coincide with this anniversary year, Pace has launched thepacegallery.com, an encyclopedic search-based site culled from the gallery’s extensive archives. The site is unlike that of any other art institution in its innovative search feature: it is built on its own search engine, so that visitors can type in a keyword and peruse a living archive of 50 years (and counting) of The Pace Gallery.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell) by Robert Coover



1st Edition, signed by the author, Robert Coover.

Text of Limitation Page
"This book was designed and computer typeset in 10 pt. Palatino by Rosemarie Waldrop. Printed on 55 lb. Writers' Natural (an acid free paper), smyth-sewn and glued into paper covers by McNaughton & Gunn in Saline, Michigan. The cover is by Keith Waldrop. There are 1000 paperbacks and 200 clothbacks, of which 50 are numbered and signed by the author."

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Joseph Cornell: Dance Index Vol 4 #9 Sep 1945



Dance Index Vol 4 #9 Sep 1945
Hans Christian Anderson Ballet Issue
Edited by Donald Windham
Paginated 138-159
Opening page "Comment" by Cornell (page 139).
Cover by Cornell as well as "Theatre of HCA" a four-page spread of small proscenium collages and "treatments" for each collage (pages 155-159), remeniscent of bits of Monsieur Phot.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Joseph & Robert Cornell at Schoelkopf Gallery 1966



Gallery announcement for a show of Joseph and Robert Cornell collages at the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, January 4-29, 1966. ( a few by each and some by both)
Lauren Beck, the dramaturg and assistant director for Hotel Cassiopeia by Charles Mee, notes on her Hotel Cassiopeia blog:
February 26, 1965: Robert Cornell dies of pneumonia. Marcel Duchamp's wife Teeny wrote to Cornell, "I will always remember his lively spirit and gentle humor." Because their deaths were so close, Cornell would always pair Robert and Joyce together in his thoughts as two innocent and helpless sould wandering through eternity together.

January 4-29, 1966: The "Robert Cornell: Memorial Exhibition" opens. Cornell exhibits some of Robert's drawings such as Baby Hippo, Mouse King, and Unbreakable Rabbit-Drum, as well as some collages he made to honor his lost brother. Some critics are unkind, but others realize that Cornell is just trying to preserve his brother's memory, not change the art world.
Lots more wonderful Cornell info at Lauren's blog, here:
http://hotelcassiopeia.blogspot.com/

See this post about JC's other Schoelkopf show in April & May 1966 and for background on the Schoelkopf Gallery.
http://fansofjosephcornell.blogspot.com/2011/04/joseph-cornell-at-schoelkopf-gallery.html

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Joseph Cornell - Helen Storms Cornell


Joseph's mother.

Doyle New York
European, American, Modern & Contemporary Art - Sale 10PT01 - Lot 121
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 11am

Joseph Cornell
American, 1903-1972
Helen Storms Cornell, circa 1889
Inscribed Helen Storms Cornell/ca. 1889/prob. Ocean Grove, NJ on the backing
Ink on photograph reproduction on masonite
Frame 11 x 9 x 1 inches

Provenance:
The artist
Leila Hadley Luce
Thence by descent to the present owner

Sold for $15,000

Estimate $4,000-6,000

Monday, April 11, 2011

Joseph Cornell at Schoelkopf Gallery 1966



Gallery announcement for a show of collages at the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, April 26 - May 14, 1966.

At this time, the Schoelkopf Gallery was at 825 Madison Ave, NYC. It later moved to 50 W. 50th St.  Schoelkopf was a Yale grad and independent art dealer from the time of his graduation in 1957 until he opened the gallery in 1962. He died in 1991. More detailed historical information about Schoelkopf and his gallery can be found on the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art web site, here:
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/robert-schoelkopf-gallery-records-10988/more

Friday, April 8, 2011

Joseph Cornell at Allan Stone Gallery 1972


5 x 7.5 inch B&W ad from an art magazine in early 1972 announcing a February Cornell showing. Stone, who died in 2006, was a groundbreaking advocate for the 60s abstract expressionists and pop artists of that time.

From the gallery's current web site:

The Allan Stone Gallery opened in 1960 showing works by Willem de Kooning, Cesar, Joseph Cornell, Barnett Newman, and a host of then-emerging artists like Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Estes, Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, and John Chamberlain. The gallery continues to show contemporary, mid-career, and emerging artists while maintaining a tradition of expertise in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Allan Stone is a leading authority on Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Joseph Cornell and John Graham. The gallery's broad aesthetic program ranges from representation to abstraction, in painting, sculpture, and works on paper.
And a link to tone's NYT obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/arts/18stone.html

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

There Never Was a Bird


There never Was A Bird

There never was a bird—in that cage.
Whitewashed for company who never visit.
Never muss the unsoiled perch.
Never give a feather to the edge of the snipped wire.
Never enjoy the hole and its ocean view.

It is what it can be. It is an object
With a title. It is a prince among princes.
It is a cenotaph for soaring souls that fear delight.
It is a third image of the blue peninsula.
It is ekphrasis redux. It is connected to this by this.
It is for this that I am.

Her words were heavenly enough to name that cage.

If I could—I would pin together the feathery paper scraps
Left behind—to build the poem named Object, Untitled.

 
From the book Chatter In The Canopy, Poems by Jeff Roberts; Drawings by Dick Roberts and Doug Heinlein, © 2008 Jeff Roberts, Booksurge, Charleston SC, ISBN-10: 1439214816;  ISBN-13: 978-1439214817;  LCCN: 2008909362. Available from Etsy.com & amazon.com

Homage to Joseph Cornell - Peter Blake


Artist: Sir Peter Blake (b. 1932-)
Title: Homage to Joseph Cornell
Year: 1996
Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper
Published by The Big Art Issue
Dimensions: 24.75 x 20 inches
Edition: 108/250
Signed (LR) and numbered (LL) in pencil

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Cornell and Dickenson

Link to a sweet excerpt from Charles Simic's Dime Store Alchemy on Poetry and Photography blog:
http://junehymas.blogspot.com/2010/11/american-autumn.html

Gopnick on Joseph Cornell


The best, I think, "elevator pitch" for Joseph Cornell is from Adam Gopnick in an article in the New Yorker, 2/17/03:

He is an artist of longings, but his longings are for things known and seen and hard to keep. He didn't long to go to France; he longed to build memorials to the feeling of wanting to go to France while riding the Third Avenue El. He preferred the ticket to the trip, the postcard to the place, the fragment to the whole. Cornell's boxes look like dreams to us, but the mind that made them was always wide awake.
 
Photo: Lee Miller

Joseph Cornell LinkedIn Group

Many Social media consultants advise LinkedIn members to add "groups" to their profile. Sometimes it's a challenge to find a group you'd like to be a member of and display on your LinkedIn page, which may be viewed by prospective employers or recruiters.

Utopia Parkway - Fans of Joseph Cornell is now a LinkedIn Group managed by me.

The group's mission is the same as this blog: to connect fans of the American collage and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell and provide a network to share and appreciate his contributions to the world of art.

Join, Share, Contribute, Enjoy!

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3810491

Exhibition Poster: Joseph Cornell Constructions & Collages, Berggruen Gallery, May 12, 1976


Exhibition Poster

Joseph Cornell
Constructions & Collages

John Berggruen Gallery
In cooperation with Castelli, Feigen, and Corcoran
228 Grant Ave, SF, CA
May 12 - June 12, 1976

Size: 17 x 22 inches

Edition Size: unknown

(So far, I've only run into two copies of this. jr)

Homage to Joseph Cornell #2 - William Thomson


Artist: William Thomson
Title: Study for Homage to Joseph Cornell #2
Date: 2011
Medium: Mixed. casein tempera, collage on paper
Size: 8 x 10 inches
Edition: 1/1 (original)
Signed: Thomson LR


Bio and Exhibition Notes:
www.exeter.edu/arts/8160_11539.aspx

Homage to Joseph Cornell #2 - Judi Culbertson



Artist: Judi Culbertson
Title: Homage to Joseph Cornell #2
Year: 2007
Medium: Mixed, of course
Edition Size: 1/1
Size: Approx. 1.5 x 2.5 inches

Judi Culbertson is the author of Scaling Down: Living Large in a Smaller Space, St. Martins Press, 2005, ISBN-13:9781594860935. She has a new mystery, A NOVEL DEATH, being published in June by Avalon Books.

Judi plans to make some one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces based Joseph Cornell's work.

Homage to Joseph Cornell #1 - Judi Culbertson


Artist: Judi Culbertson
Title: Homage to Joseph Cornell #1
Year: 2007
Medium: Mixed, of course
Edition Size: 1/1
Size: Approx. 1.5 x 2.5 inches
Judi Culbertson is the author of Scaling Down: Living Large in a Smaller Space, St. Martins Press, 2005, ISBN-13:9781594860935.She has a new mystery, A NOVEL DEATH, being published in June by Avalon Books.

Judi plans to make some one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces based Joseph Cornell's work.

Joseph Cornell Box Comes to Life

Today I discovered this remarkable music video for Nothing Else Will Do by J. Scott Bergman, conceived and directed by Geoff Mark. The setting is inside a Cornell box, which comes alive with the music. Love it.

http://www.directorgeoff.com/newd.html

Homage to Joseph Cornell - Cesar Trasobares




Artist: César Trasobares
Title: Untitled (Homage to Joseph Cornell)
Date: 1992
Medium: Cedar box, wire, tinted gesso, paper, xerography, Christmas ornament, plastic cube, feathers, coral rock, book
Published by Grassfield Press, Miami Beach, Florida
Edition Size: 30
Signed by Trasobares on verso of box LR

Background:
"In 1992 Grassfield Press commissioned César Trasobares to create an homage to Joseph Cornell using a cedar box and a copy of the book, Joseph Cornell: Gifts of Desire, by Dickran Tashjian.

Trasobares covered the cedar box with a wire lid that opens like a gate to the nostalgic garden of Cornell's collage, For Josephine, that is printed on the cover of the book. When the book is removed, the open gate reveals Cornell in his garden in Flushing, New York. In a direct reference to Cornell's assemblages, Trasobares selected an array of evocative objects for display in the box's small compartments.
Trasobares adds a new dimension to the book's central theme of gift-giving by montaging excerpts from the IRS tax rulings regulating gifts of art work. Such social commentary is a common feature of Trasobares' work. He also pays tribute to Cornell as an "Enchanted Wanderer" by scattering airline schedules throughout the lid's montage.

Trasobares (b. 1949, Cuba) lives and works in Miami, Florida. A graduate of Florida Atlantic University, Trasobares has exhibited extensively since 1970, and was included in 'Cuba U.S.A.,' a traveling exhibition originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in 1991. He is a recipient of artist fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and Cintas Foundation.

The cedar box was hand-crafted by Luis Baltar, Miami, Florida. Hans Namuth's photograph of Joseph Cornell (1969) was reproduced by permission."

Source:
http://www.cesartrasobares.com/w%20history%20chrono%20files/cornel%201992.html

Homage to Joseph Cornell - William Thomson


Artist: William Thomson
Title: Study for Homage to Joseph Cornell
Date: 2011
Medium: Mixed. Watercolor, egg tempera, collage on paper
Size: 8 x 10 inches
Edition: 1/1 (original)
Signed: Thomson LR

Bio and Exhibition Notes:
www.exeter.edu/arts/8160_11539.aspx