The Birth of the Nuclear Atom
The Birth of the Nuclear Atom
Artist
Joseph Cornell
(1903 - 1972)
Dateca. 1960
MediumWood box construction: glass, gouache, metal, cork, and printed-paper collage
Dimensions9 3/4 x 15 x 3 3/4 in. (24.8 x 38.1 x 9.5 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LinePromised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
On View
Not on viewCornell lived most of his life in his family’s home in Queens, New York. Although he was a veritable recluse, in the 1950s and 1960s artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol saw Cornell as a kindred spirit and made pilgrimages to meet him. Like them, Cornell created meaningful objects from the detritus of American consumer and popular culture.
