Night Songs, between 1953 and 1955

  • Joseph Cornell, American, 1903-1972

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)

Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, Catherine Kresge Dewey Fund; gift of Mrs. George Kamperman by exchange

1993.77

Signed, on verso

the artist

1970, private collector. Donald Morris Gallery

1993-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Percy, Ann and Mark Rosenthal. Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1986, p. 22 (ill.).

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.