The Spirit of Joseph Cornell: A Curator's View of Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection
April 5 - September 22, 2002
Clifton Hall Link

Joseph Cornell is known for his small, box collages filled with the wonderful, but often forgotten objects of daily life. Cornell imbued childhood artifacts, found art historical images, and celestial maps with a sense of discovery and poetic allusion. This exhibition featured six rarely seen Cornell collages from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s permanent collection. Organized by Associate Curator Claire Schneider, the exhibition’s installation employed Cornell’s unconventional juxtapositions as inspiration for selecting and hanging works on paper from the Gallery’s permanent collection. This exhibition, devoted to Cornell’s fascinating vision, served as a wonderful complement to A Look at Romare Bearden.