SALEM -- For artist Joseph Cornell, there was no need to think outside the box. Cornell specialized in shadow box creations -- wooden frames with scenes assembled from found objects inside. "You store ...

Folks who know Joseph Cornell's intricate boxes know they're not just meant to be looked at. Playful objects made by a playful artist, they're supposed to be rotated, upended and shaken. Even though ...

This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and ...

Appraisal: Shadow Box Attributed to Joseph Cornell, from Anaheim Hour 3. Watch Leigh Keno's appraisal of a shadow box attributed to Joseph Cornell, in Anaheim Hour 3.

Collectors give the museum 27 box constructions and collages by the homebody artist who rarely left Queens but became a central figure in 20th century art. By Deborah Solomon In her new memoir, “The ...

Auburndale produced an unlikely innovator in the art world in the mid-20 th century: shadow box and collage artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), who over four decades lived in a small frame house on ...

In his personal papers, as in his art, Joseph Cornell embraced life's evanescence. Known mainly for his shadow box constructions, Cornell documented his passion for "exquisite surprises"- the poignant ...

What is it about boxes that is so fascinating? I was thinking this as I went into Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art to see Pandora’s Box, a show that displays artist Joseph Cornell’s signature ...

Small collaged card stock token box with lid, one clear plastic capsule with a toy ring and a pen and ink note Size: 3.25 x 2.25 x 1.5 in. (8.3 x 5.7 x 3.8 cm.) ...

Joseph Cornell had one of the strangest careers in all of modern art. Born in Nyack, N.Y., he never traveled farther afield than New England, and lived quietly for decades in the house in Flushing, ...

UTOPIA PARKWAY: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon. From Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 1997, 426 pp., $30.00 hardcover. Artist's lives are seldom exemplary. Instead of ...

At a gallery in Manhattan in October 1953, Joseph Cornell glimpsed “The Man at the Café” (1914), a dusky collage by Juan Gris, a Spanish cubist painter. Here, in an angular welter of newsprint and ...