About This Artwork
Joseph Cornell
American, 1903–1972
Untitled (Sequestered Bower)c. 1948
Box construction with amber glass
15 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.
Signed on back, lower right: Joseph Cornell
Inscribed on back, upper left: Joseph Cornell / undated
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, 1982.1862
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 397
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, ACA Galleries, Joseph Cornell: Boxes and Collages, 1977, no. 11, as Sequestered Bower.
Chicago, Joseph Cornell, 1980-82, traveled to London, Düsseldorf, Florence, Paris, and Chicago, exh. cat., no. S-27, as Sequestered Bower.
Ownership History
Bequeathed by artist to his niece Helen Batcheller, New York, 1972; sold via the ACA Galleries, New York, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1980; given to the Art Institute, 1982.