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Soap Bubble Set, Joseph Cornell, 1940, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Simeon B. Williams Fund Size: 34.3 × 48.3 × 7.6 cm (13 1/2 × 19 × 3 in.) Medium: Wood, glass, paper, metal, and shell

Untitled (Landscape with Figure) from Prints for Phoenix House, Joseph Cornell, 1972, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Brooke and Carolyn Alexander Size: plate: 13 x 10 1/8" (33 x 25.7cm); sheet: 19 5/16 x 14 7/8" (49.1 x 37.8cm) Medium: Photogravure from a portfolio of three lithographs, two photogravures, two screenprints with stencil and varnish additions, one aquatint, one etching and aquatint, and one screenprint

Soap Bubble Set, Joseph Cornell, 1940, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Joseph Cornell’s box constructions present highly personal reflections on art, nature, history, and memory through the unexpected juxtaposition of found objects and printed material. Here he included glasses, pipes, and round disks to recollect the youthful activity of blowing soap bubbles. Their placement in front of a diagram of the Copernican planetary system, however, suggests a more universal significance. Cornell produced other Soap Bubble Set boxes, and he later recalled about them that “Shadow boxes become poetic theatres or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides.” Simeon B. Williams Fund Size: 34.3 × 48.3 × 7.6 cm (13 1/2 × 19 × 3 in.) Medium: Wood, glass, paper, metal, and shell

Hotel du Nord, Joseph Cornell, mid-20th century, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

Medium: Lithograph

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Elemental Singularities

Richard Poulin at Brian Marki Fine Art Gallery in Palm Springs, California, USA through 25 February 2020. Since the 1970s, Poulin has been inspired by the work of modernists and avant-garde artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch, and Joseph Cornell. Richard has said that “these ‘visual essays’ express my life’s passions and pains, joys and losses, and the fundamental aspects of spirit, soul, and being.” MORE

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