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The Admiral's Game

ca. 1950
12 x 18 x 4 in. (30.5 x 45.7 x 10.2 cm)

Joseph Cornell
United States (New York, NY, 1903 - 1972, Flushing, NY)

Object Type: Sculpture
Medium and Support: Mixed media
Credit Line: Maurice R. and Maxine B. Forman Fund
Accession Number: 1998.77
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Location: Not currently on view

Romantic and enigmatic, Joseph Cornell’s boxes are filled with fragments of found materials. In The Admiral’s Game, the parallel rods that hold a pair of white balls might suggest a playful arcade game or the timeless and profound idea of an all-powerful creator setting the planets in motion.

Cornell made his highly symbolic and mysterious creations at the home that he shared with his mother and brother in Queens, New York. While Cornell was reclusive and essentially an outsider in the art world, his work influenced many important American artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Marcel Duchamp.

[Summer 2015]

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Artist; Artist's estate; C&M Arts, New York, purchased from them by the Gallery in 1998

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