See also Series 2.1 General Correspondence, Torczyner, Harry, for Georgette Magritte letter and photograph.
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9 black and white photographs. Includes "Floating Head, Portrait of Mary Taylor" by Lee Miller, 1933; two portraits of Mary Taylor, by Lee Miller; three film stills from Jean Cocteau's film, "Le Sang d'un poète," 1931; two prints of photomontage of Lee Miller by Joseph Cornell, circa 1949; and letter from Cornell to sister, Betty, 1948.
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1 black and white photograph, signed to Cornell from Toumanova. Includes fabric and tulle costume pieces and bell.
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5 black and white photographs; 3 color snapshots; 1 color transparency. Includes diary notes with reference to "Suzy Sun Box" and "Suzy's Pipe Dream." See Series 2.1 General Correspondence, Hess, Lorelei, for correspondence with Judy Tyler's mother and father, Box 2, Folder 34.
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Source files compiled by topic, general subject, planned box or collage or "album" project, include a wide variety of materials. Subject source files document Cornell's artistic interests and work processes through notes, collected prints and engravings, collected book fragments, magazine and print collage cutouts, box and collage fragments, paint-stained cutouts and papers, collected photographs, photostats and photo reproductions, scattered correspondence and collected artifacts, among other materials. The files also include collected vintage letters, such as letters from Fanny Cerrito, Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Essler, Madame Celeste, and collected Greek and Italian (Livorno) letters.
General areas of focused collecting include "Americana" and "American History"; animals and insects, especially "Birds," general "Insect" files, "Owls," "Reptiles," animals of the sea and "Shells"; science, including "Anatomy," archaeology, "Astronomy," "Geography," "Geology," "Horticulture," and paleontology; as well as people, such as actresses, races of the world, "Great Men," "Nude Studies," and "Women," among many others. Files of end papers, atlas fragments, hotel cutouts and photostats from old travel advertisements, and "Arizona Highways" cutouts are also found here.
Significant files relating to specific works of art, or including extensive references and notes related to Cornell's artworks, include "Box Material"; "'Box' Materials, Fairly Early – 1950s"; "Castles Swans, Related to Artwork Boxes"; "Cylinder Images" (relating to "Soap Bubble Set" works); "Dürer Material"; "Juan Gris Workings"; "Medici Slot Machine"; "Nostalgia of the Sea"; "Pergolesi Parrot" (Juan Gris #9); "Sand Box"; "Space Box" material; and "Spare Room File of Art Notes." Also, Robert Cornell files largely relate to Cornell's later collages which incorporate Robert's drawings. The "Nude Studies" files include numerous source images and cutouts used in many of Cornell's later collages. Scattered notes and annotations, references, and source clippings related to finished Cornell works are found throughout source material files.
Files also include more extensive "explorations," collecting projects, and portfolio projects. "Celestial Theatre" files include material related to constellations and stargazing, as well as circuses and tightrope walkers. "Cherubino" files relate to the beauty and nostalgia of childhood innocence and youth (see also Series 3: Diaries and Notes, "Cherubino #4 – Writings, Notes"). "Colombier" files include material relating to pigeons and aviaries, as well as Cornell's "Dovecote" boxes. Files of "GC 44" material relate to Cornell's time spent working at the Flushing nursery, Garden Centre, in 1944, and include writings and diary notes, clippings, photographs, and thematic scrapbook pages ("Festival of Nature," The Floral Still Life," "House on the Hill," "The Little Dancer," "The Old Farm," and "Rue Bicherie"), among other material. "Italia," "Italian Files," and "Napoli" are files grouped separately, but all related to Cornell's Italian "explorations." "'Portrait of Ondine' (Fanny Cerrito)" files include material relating to the portfolio artwork of the same title, as well as further collected material Cornell felt related to Fanny Cerrito, such as Giorgio de Chirico artwork, birds, New York City skylines, Naples, and windows. Also included are letters and notes from Parker Tyler and Lillian Moore; draft materials for "presentation" of final work; and dairies, writings, and notes that give clarity to the collected material and project goals. "Portrait of Ondine' (Fanny Cerrito)" files also include materials that do not immediately appear related but were found with the material, including notes referring to other Cornell works. "Salamandre" or "La Salamandre fin de Siecle" files contain material relating to a collaged booklet project, including draft booklets and elements of the finished booklet. "Switzerland" files document a work in progress, "Scrapbook of Switzerland," referenced in Series 3: Diaries and Notes, "Art Notes Pertaining to 'Objects.'" Materials were removed from a cardboard box and include album draft pages, vintage photographs of mountains and people, clippings, map and atlas fragments, prints and engravings, travel guide fragments, and sheet music.
Of note, files include material relating to a charity project for Phoenix House, a program for drug treatment and prevention. In 1972, Cornell was asked to contribute a print for a portfolio of artist lithographs, which included artists like David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, and James Rosenquist. Brooke Alexander assisted Cornell by taking four of Cornell's chosen collages from his home to a printer's studio to be turned into lithographs. Files include two steel printing plates, and two first run print proofs for "Untitled (Landscape with Figure)" and "Untitled (Derby Hat), as well as two lithograph proofs of "Hotel du Nord."
Additionally, there are an extensive number of "Collage Envelope" files, which are files of manila envelopes with various writing and notes that seem to have once held collages transferred elsewhere. Several envelopes held additional clippings, scraps, collage elements, and notes, and have been retained with their respective envelope, though some were empty. Titles have been taken from the envelopes themselves. Researchers should note that in addition to Cornell, some notations have been made by Cornell's niece, Helen Jagger Batcheller, and previous Study Center staff.
Arrangement:
File titles, or parts of file titles, in quotes denote wording provided by Joseph Cornell. Other file titles were created by archives staff.
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Collection Citation:
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9 black and white photographs. Includes photogravure of Longfellow's study, as well as unbound book, "National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans" (1852).
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1 black and white photograph. Includes print of work used in Cornell's, "A Dressing Room for Gille," and scattered annotations.
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Includes newspaper clipping of a penguin with "Natural History" typed within print by Cornell; scattered diary notes; clippings with some annotations. Photogravure rehoused: see Series 10.3, Collected Photographs and Source Images, Folder: Artwork, Alfred Stieglitz - photogravure from "Camera Work," "The Ferry Boat," 1911.
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1 black and white photograph of Katherine Sergava. Oversized material housed in Box 87, Folder 15. Vintage family photograph of Helen Storms Cornell rehoused with Series 10.1 Personal Photographs, Folder: Childhood and Family Photographs, Helen Storms Cornell, circa 1900.
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1 color snapshot; 7 black and white prints. Oversized material housed in Box 101, Folders 10-13. Includes annotated clippings, paint-stained papers, and diaries and notes. Oversized photostats include Man Ray's "André Breton" solarized photograph with brown staining, and photostat of dog depicted in SAAM accessions 1991.155.36 and 1991.155.109.
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1 black and white photograph. Includes project planning notes and ideas; small paint splattered pages; letter regarding permission request to produce published Valery excerpt; 1945 notes about collected ephemera in World's Fair in New York.
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2 black and white photographs. Oversized material housed in Box 89, Folders 10-11, and Box 101, Folder 19.
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Oversized material removed from Box 27, Folder 17. Includes three black and white photographs, and "Wee Bit of Light Flak" clippings.
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2 black and white photographs. Oversized material housed in Box 89, Folders 8-9.
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2 black and white photographs; 2 cartes-de-visite. Includes W. T. Greene's "Parrots in Captivity" engraving of Senegal Parrot.
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10 black and white photographs, 1 cabinet card. Includes diary notes, childhood photographs of Robert Cornell, photostats of "Maria de Medici" by Bronzino, and clippings.
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Collection Citation:
Joseph Cornell Study Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Series 9: Artifacts and Ephemera, Series 13: Personal Library and Book Collection, and Series 14: Record Album Collection, are still undergoing processing and preservation and may not be available for research use. Record albums are unavailable for playback. Contact collection staff for full lists of publications and record albums.
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Collection Citation:
Joseph Cornell Study Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Sponsor:
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Access to the collection requires an advanced appointment. Contact collection staff at least two weeks prior to preferred date, at AmericanArtCornellStudy@si.edu.
Series 9: Artifacts and Ephemera, Series 13: Personal Library and Book Collection, and Series 14: Record Album Collection, are still undergoing processing and preservation and may not be available for research use. Record albums are unavailable for playback. Contact collection staff for full lists of publications and record albums.
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Collection Citation:
Joseph Cornell Study Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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2 black and white photographs; 6 black and white photo reproductions.
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Collection Citation:
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2 black and white photographs. Oversized material housed in Box 90, Folder 8. Includes material referencing Loredana and "Paese di Loredana." Also includes limited edition arts publication, "MSS (Manuscripts), Number 5: 'The Tin Whistle or Rejected by the Orchestra'" by Herbert J. Seligmann.
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Collection Citation:
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