About This Artwork

Joseph Cornell
American, 1903–1972

The Eagle, the Arrow, and the Dolphin, c. 1960

Box construction
11 1/16 x 17 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Titled and signed on back on paper labels: THE EAGLE, THE ARROW, and THE DOLPHIN (printed) / Joseph Cornell (in artist’s hand)
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, 1982.1849

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The University of Chicago, Renaissance Society, The New Curiosity Shop, 1971, no. 22.

Carbondale, Southern Illinois University, University Galleries, Small Environments, 1972, traveled to Madison, no. 12 (slide ill.).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections, 1973, no cat. nos.

Saint Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, Exploring Joseph Cornell’s Visual Poetry, 1982, no cat. nos., p. 24.

Publication History

René Passeron, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1968, p. 281 (ill.).

Ownership History

Sold by the artist to the Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1967; given to the Art Institute, 1982.