Untitled (Scrapbook for Tamara Toumanova)
Details
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
Untitled (Scrapbook for Tamara Toumanova)
binder--colored paper, printed paper collage, black and white photograph, handmade paper, plastic, tulle, feathers, fabric, rhinestones, and string
11 x 10 x 1 5/8 in. (27.9 x 25.4 x 4.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1953.
Untitled (Scrapbook for Tamara Toumanova)
binder--colored paper, printed paper collage, black and white photograph, handmade paper, plastic, tulle, feathers, fabric, rhinestones, and string
11 x 10 x 1 5/8 in. (27.9 x 25.4 x 4.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1953.
Provenance
Tamara Toumanova, Los Angeles, acquired from the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Cornell, January-March 1982 (this work exhibited only at the Art Institute of Chicago).
Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Joseph Cornell: An Exploration of Sources, November 1982-February 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, June 1983-October 1989.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Museum of Art; Salem, MA, Peabody Essex Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, November 2006-January 2008, pp. 282-283, cat. no. 130 (illustrated in color).
Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Joseph Cornell: An Exploration of Sources, November 1982-February 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, June 1983-October 1989.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Museum of Art; Salem, MA, Peabody Essex Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, November 2006-January 2008, pp. 282-283, cat. no. 130 (illustrated in color).
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