About This Artwork

Joseph Cornell
American, 1903–1972

Untitled (Black Hunter), c. 1939

Box construction with painted glass
12 x 8 x 2 7/8 in.
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, 1982.1844

Art © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Probably New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Exhibition of Objects (Bilboquet) by Joseph Cornell, 1939, no cat. nos., n. pag.

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joseph Cornell, 1967, no cat. nos., p. 22, as Black Hunter.

Kassel, Galerie an der Schönen Aussicht, Museum Fredericianum, and Orangerie im Auepark, 4.documenta, 1968, vol. 2, no. 3 as Black Hunter.

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cornell in Chicago, 1973-74, no cat. nos., n pag., as Black Hunter.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell, 1980-82, traveled to London, Düsseldorf, Florence, Paris, and Chicago, no. 68 (ill.) and pp. 26, 286.

Florence, Joseph Cornell, 1981, traveled to London, Düsseldorf, New York, Paris, and Chicago, no. 5 (ill.).

Salem, Massachusetts, Peabody Essex Museum, Joseph Cornell: Navigating Imagination, 2006-08, travelled to Washington D.C., no. 43.

Publication History

Dore Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, New York, Viking Press, 1974, p. 156 (ill.), as Black Hunter.

Diane Waldman, Joseph Cornell, New York, Braziller, 1977, pl. 3 and p. 18, as Black Hunter.

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, “Joseph Cornell’s Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the College Art Association, Washington, D.C., Feb. 1, 1979, pp. 4-5, fig. 18.

Dickran Tashjian, A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950, New York, 1995, pp. 237, 285 (ill.).

Ownership History

Parker Tyler; sold to the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1964; given to the Art Institute, 1982