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Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was eccentric and reclusive and went about NYC and environs collecting little bits and pieces of things: shells, old diaries, album covers. He felt there were certain... Joseph Cornell Boxes, Cornell Box, Moma Exhibition, Box Assemblage, Joseph Cornell, Found Object Art, Modern And Contemporary Art, Assemblage Art, Found Object

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was eccentric and reclusive and went about NYC and environs collecting little bits and pieces of things: shells, old diaries, album covers. He felt there were certain objects that belonged together that had been separated, possibly by decades, and made otherworldly, magical assemblage boxes that purported to reunite them.This idea of making

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“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.” Joseph Cornell Artwork, Joseph Cornell Boxes, Cornell Box, Box Sculpture, Assemblage Art Mixed Media, Box Assemblage, Joseph Cornell, Art Boxes, Shadow Box Art

This took me an age to create digitally - or so I thought until my niece who is an assemblage artist told me that, starting with a vintage apothecary's cabinet, she estimates it will take her at least a year to fill with hand made metal and fabric items. I can't compete with that!! The shadow boxes and shadows are by Maya at Scrapbookgraphics. Elements are mostly from Lorie Davidson also of SBG and the old gramophone is from Finecrafted Designs.

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Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)  Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall) with Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall: Working Model Based Upon "To Have and Have Not" Joseph Cornell Boxes, Junko Oki, Cornell Box, Sculpture Assemblage, Joseph Cornell, Fortune Tellers, Art Boxes, Gustave Flaubert, 3d Collage

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall) with Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall: Working Model Based Upon "To Have and Have Not"

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