Untitled (Black Hunter) by Joseph Cornell
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Black Hunter)

Joseph Cornell · c. 1939

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Parker Tyler; sold to the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1964; given to the Art Institute, 1982

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Probably New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Exhibition of Objects (Bilboquet) by Joseph Cornell, 1939, no cat. nos., n. pag.
  • New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joseph Cornell, 1967, no cat. nos., p. 22, as Black Hunter.
  • Kassel, Galerie an der Schönen Aussicht, Museum Fredericianum, and Orangerie im Auepark, 4.documenta, 1968, vol. 2, no. 3 as Black Hunter.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cornell in Chicago, 1973-74, no cat. nos., n pag., as Black Hunter.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell, 1980-82, traveled to London, Düsseldorf, Florence, Paris, and Chicago, no. 68 (ill.) and pp. 26, 286.
  • Florence, Joseph Cornell, 1981, traveled to London, Düsseldorf, New York, Paris, and Chicago, no. 5 (ill.).
  • Salem, Massachusetts, Peabody Essex Museum, Joseph Cornell: Navigating Imagination, 2006-08, travelled to Washington D.C., no. 43.

Literature

Published references

  • Dore Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, New York, Viking Press, 1974, p. 156 (ill.), as Black Hunter.
  • Diane Waldman, Joseph Cornell, New York, Braziller, 1977, pl. 3 and p. 18, as Black Hunter.
  • Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, “Joseph Cornell’s Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the College Art Association, Washington, D.C., Feb. 1, 1979, pp. 4-5, fig. 18.
  • Dickran Tashjian, A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950, New York, 1995, pp. 237, 285 (ill.).

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