Untitled (Butterfly Habitat)

1. Sold by the artist to William Copley, Beverly Hills, by 1948. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Berman, Sherman Oaks, California, by 1966; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Feigen, New York, 1973; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1976; partially given to the Art Institute, 1982; remaining percentage given to the Art Institure, 2006.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Beverly Hills, California, Copley Galleries, Objects by Joseph Cornell, 1948, no. 11, as Series of Butterflies.
• Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, An Exhibition of Works by Joseph Cornell, 1966-67, no. 12 (ill.), as Untitled (Series of Butterfly Habitats).
• Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), 1973-74, no cat.
• New York, Castelli, Feigen, Corcoran, Joseph Cornell Portfolio, 1976, no. 7 (ill.).
• New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell, 1980-82, traveled to London, Düsseldorf, Florence, Paris, and Chicago, exh. cat., no. 160 (ill.; New York and Chicago only).

• Dore Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, 1974, pp. 82-84 (ill.), as Butterfly Habitat.
• Diane Waldman, Joseph Cornell 1977, pl. 5.
• A.M. Hammacher, Phantoms of the Imagination: Fantasy in Art and Literature from Blake to Dali, New York, 1981, fig. 324 and p. 344, as Butterfly Habitat.

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