About This Artwork
Joseph Cornell
American, 1903–1972
Untitled (Forgotten Game)c. 1949
Box construction
21 1/8 x 15 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, 1982.1852
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 397
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Egan Gallery, Aviary by Joseph Cornell, 1949-50, no. 23, as Forgotten Game.
New York Public Library, Central Children’s Room, The Fairy Tale World, 1950, no cat.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Art and the Found Object, 1959, no cat.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joseph Cornell, 1967, no cat. nos., pp. 20, 23.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Modern Masters from Chicago Collections, 1972, no cat. nos., n. pag.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cornell in Chicago, 1973-74, no cat. nos., no pag. (ill. on cover).
Houston, Rice University, Institute of Arts, Joseph Cornell, 1977, no cat.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell, 1980-82, traveled to London, Düsseldorf, Florence, Paris, and Chicago, no. 169 (ill.), and pp. 29, 107, fig. 21 (New York and Chicago only).
Publication History
Marcel Jean with Arpad Mezei, The History of Surrealist Painting, tr. by Simon Watson Taylor, London, 1960, p. 317 (ill.), as Forgotten Game.
David Bourdon, “Imagined Universe Stored in Boxes,” Life 63 (Dec. 15, 1967), p. 59 (ill.).
Dore Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, 1974, p. 25 (ill.).
Diane Waldman, Joseph Cornell, 1977, p. 26 and pl. 22.
Dickran Tashjian, Joseph Cornell: Gifts of Desire, Miami Beach, FL, 1992, p. 87 and pl. 27.
Sakura, Japan, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Joseph Cornell: Seven Boxes by Joseph Cornell, 1993, exh. cat., p. 21 and fig. 30.
Ownership History
Sold by the artist to Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1965; given to the Art Institute, 1982.