About This Artwork

Joseph Cornell
American, 1903–1972

Untitled (Sun Box), c. 1955

Box construction with painted glass
6 3/8 x 9 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.
Inscribed and signed on back on paper labels: blue marble in glass. / Joseph Cornell
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, 1982.1864

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Sheboygan, Wisconsin, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Glass/Backwards, 1979, no cat.

Publication History

Dore Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, 1974, p. 110 (ill. upside down), as Sun Box.

Ownership History

Sold by the artist to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, October 1959; given to the Art Institute, 1982.