About the Artwork
Night Songs
between 1953 and 1955
Joseph Cornell
1903-1972
American
Unknown
Wood, glass, xeroxed photographs, paint, spring, compass and other objects
Overall: 16 15/16 × 10 3/16 × 4 3/16 inches (43 × 25.9 × 10.6 cm)
Sculpture
Contemporary Art after 1950
Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, Catherine Kresge Dewey Fund; gift of Mrs. George Kamperman by exchange
1993.77
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Markings
Signed, on verso
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Provenance
the artist
1970, private collector. Donald Morris Gallery
1993-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Percy, Ann and Mark Rosenthal. Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1986, p. 22 (ill.).
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Joseph Cornell, Night Songs, between 1953 and 1955, wood, glass, xeroxed photographs, paint, spring, compass and other objects. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, Catherine Kresge Dewey Fund; gift of Mrs. George Kamperman by exchange, 1993.77.
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