About This Artwork

Joseph Cornell
American, 1903–1972

Untitled (Blue Sand Box), early 1950s

Box construction
1 7/8 x 15 1/16 x 9 1/4 in.
Signed on back, lower left, on paper label: Joseph Cornell
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, 1982.1860

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Ownership History

Sold by the artist to the Allan Frumkin Gallery, mid-1950s; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1965; given to the Art Institute, 1982.