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Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 91 |
| Germany | 11 |
| Spain | 7 |
| France | 6 |
| Japan | 3 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA |
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L&M Arts, USA |
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Manny Silverman Gallery, USA |
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Ubu Gallery, USA |
4 |
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery, USA |
3 |
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24.12.1903 Born in Nyack, NY (US)
THE RECLUSE
Joseph Cornell was born in a suburb of New York City and educated at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He lived a hermetic existence in a small one-family house on Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens and for most of his life shared this home, which was also his studio, with his mother and his disabled brother Robert. Self-taught as an artist and filmmaker, Cornell began to exhibit his collages and objects in New York in 1932 at the Julien Levy Gallery.
AMERICAN SURREALIST
Cornell was inspired by the Surrealist Movement and in turn was admired and visited by many of the leading European Surrealist artists. Cornell was particularly inspired by Max Ernst´s juxtapositions of incongruous images. André Breton included Cornell in Surrealist exhibitions although Cornell never embraced the darker or erotic aspects of the movement, maintaining an innocent delight in manifestations of ordinary objects and popular culture that predated Pop Art by two decades.
BOXES
Cornell made small wooden boxes that are simple, glass-fronted, presentations in which surprising collections of commonplace and exotic things are placed like performers in a theatrical stage. The boxes combine the formal austerity of Constructivist sculpture with the fantasy and irrationality of Surrealism. His work is evocative and poetic, provoking nostalgia for an imagined past. Cornell´s materials included faded photographs and images of often obscure ballerinas and movie stars, astronomical maps, emblems of voyages, birds and objects such as marbles, corks, and aperitif glasses, and small colored balls. Cornell collected his materials on journeys into Manhattan where he frequented junk stores, flea markets, and souvenir shops on 42nd Street
29.12.1972 Died in Flushing, NY (US)
| | Public exhibitions 124 
until 31.1.2010
until 22.11.
Solo shows 18
2007
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| Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Navigating the Imagination - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA |
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| Joseph Cornell - Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Andromeda Hotel - The Art of Joseph Cornell - Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
2005
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| Joseph Cornell - Boxes and Collages - L&M Arts, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Joseph Cornell - Collages - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2002
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| Joseph Cornell - Collages - L&M Arts, New York City, NY |
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| The Spirit of Joseph Cornell - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
1997
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| Joseph Cornell: Private Constellations - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1996
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| Joseph Cornell - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Joseph Cornell: Box Construction and Collages - L&M Arts, New York City, NY |
1984
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| Joseph Cornell - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Joseph Cornell - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1981
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| Joseph Cornell - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
1980
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| Joseph Cornell - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1979
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| Joseph Cornell / MATRIX 30 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
1965
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| Joseph Cornell - Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 104
2009
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| La Sombra - Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid |
2008
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| Modernidad americana. Obras de la Corcoran Gallery of Art - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Paintings & Drawings - L&M Arts, New York City, NY |
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| SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
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| 1968/2008 - The Culture of Collage - Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| Group Show: Thinking about Walter Hopps - Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA |
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| Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
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| Selections from the collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| 2000 Years of Sculpture - Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
2007
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| Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of the Contemporary Museum - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI |
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| Collection-isms - Assab One, Milan |
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| Lights, Camera, Action: Artists´ Films for the Cinema - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Cosmologies, - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
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| That´s Not Entertaiment - CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona |
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| Surface Matter: Collage from the collection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| A Century of Collage - Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR |
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| busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Collage Aesthetic - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| Art on the Edge - , Omaha, NE |
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| redefined - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Collection 1 - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
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| Le mouvement des images - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Rock Paper Scissors: American Collage Now - Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Measure of Time - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Surrealism - Theater of the Mind - Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA |
2005
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| Mapping Space - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Dalí, Picasso, and the Surrealist Vision - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
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| Obras Maestras del Siglo XX en las Colecciones del IVAM - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
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| Dialogues - Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| Surrealism USA - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| The Shape of Time - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Gift - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI |
2004
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| Sonhando de olhos abertos - Dada e Surrealismo - Coleção de Vera e Arturo Schwarz - Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo |
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| Arte y utopía - La acción restringida - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Art, Artists, and the Addison - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY |
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| THE MUSE - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Black White - Danese, New York City, NY |
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| Assemblage - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| Traveling - towards the border - NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| "Game over" - Andreas Grimm - München, Munich |
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| Innocence & Transgression - The Proposition, New York City, NY |
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| Some Assembly Required - Collage Culture in Post-War America - Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL |
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| Hot Summer in the City - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show No. 1 - Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA |
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| Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| The Exquisite Object II - Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Not Exactly Photographs - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2002
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| Assembly/Line: Works by Twentieth-Century Sculptors - Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA |
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| Collage - Abstract Expressionist & Pop - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| "Assembly / Line: Works by Twentieth-Century Sculptors" - University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA |
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| Ferus - Gagosian Gallery - 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Three Approaches to Collage - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Lewis Caroll - ... confiture demain et confiture hier. Mais jamais confiture auj - CRAC - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète |
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| La Révolution surréaliste - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Surrealism - Desire Unbound - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Themes and Variations. Post-war Art from the Guggenheim Collections. - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Behind the Surrealist Curtain: Sex, Sensuality and Silence - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Surrealist Collage - Zabriskie Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Tenth Anniversary Exhibition - 100 Drawings and Photographs - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Naked since 1950 - L&M Arts, New York City, NY |
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| SPACE - Selections from the Permanent Collection - University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA |
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| A Private Reading - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| About Objects - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| Die Sammlung Lauffs I - Museen Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld |
2000
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| inside out: reality or fiction? - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Destruction / Creation - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Surrealism - Two Private Eyes - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Fruits & Flowers, Skies & Pies - Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Carved, Modeled, Assembled, Welded, Drawn - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf |
1998
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| Deep Storage: The Arsenal of Memory - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| A Sense for Scale II. The Art of the Miniature - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Joseph Cornell / Marcel Duchamp…in resonance - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1997
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| Deep Storage - Sammeln, Speichern, Archivieren in der Kunst - Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin |
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| Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - HDK - Haus der Kunst - München, Munich |
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| Collage and Assemblage - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1996
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| Comme un oiseau - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
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| Group Exhibition - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1995
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| Sculpture as Objects - Curt Marcus Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Elvis + Marilyn: 2 X Immortal - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1994
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| The Box: From Duchamp to Horn - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Azur - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1988
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| Surface - Figure - Space - - Galerie Gmurzynska - Köln, Cologne (closed, 2006) |
1987
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| Alexis Smith/Joseph Cornell: Parallels - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| The Window in Twentieth-Century Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1986
1982
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| In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948–1982 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The Americans: The Collage - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1977
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| "Through the Big End of the Opera Glass" II - Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY |
1972
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| documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel |
1968
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| documenta 4 - Documenta, Kassel |
1965
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| Personal Choice: Paintings and Sculpture from Houston Private Collections - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1959
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| Out of the Ordinary - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1958
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| Collage International: From Picasso to the Present - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1957
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| Recent Contemporary Acquisitions – Houston - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
Dealer Directory 19 |
France
| | Galerie Karsten Greve - Paris, Paris
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Italy
| | Galerie Karsten Greve - Milano, Milan
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Japan
Switzerland
| | Galerie Karsten Greve - St. Moritz, St. Moritz
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USA
| | Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, IL
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
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| | ACA Galleries, New York City, NY
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| | Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Timothy Baum, New York City, NY
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | L&M Arts, New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Pascal de Sarthe Fine Art, Paradise Valley, AZ
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| | Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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Public collections 40

Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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France
| | Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar
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| | MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice
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| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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Italy
| | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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Japan
| | Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba
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| | Yokohama Museum of Art, Nishi-ku, Yokohama
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Korea (Republic)
| | Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
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Liechtenstein
| | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Spain
| | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
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| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
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| | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
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| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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| | The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
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| | Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
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| | Kresge Art Museum, Lansing, MI
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| | Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
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| | Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
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| | Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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| | David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
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| | North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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| | The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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| | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
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