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Joseph Cornell was born in [[Nyack, New York|Nyack]], New York,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wydcAgAAQBAJ&q=Joseph+Cornell+nyack&pg=PA13|title=Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order|first=Lindsay|last=Blair|date=June 1, 2013|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=9781780231600|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyacknewsandviews.com/2014/08/nsl_haunted-by-art/|title=Nyack Sketch Log: A House Haunted by Art|website=Nyack News and Views|date=26 August 2014 }}</ref> to Joseph Cornell, a textiles industry executive,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pdIAQAAIAAJ&q=Joseph+Cornell+nyack+merchant+father|title=Exploring Joseph Cornell's Visual Poetry: Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, April 9-May 9, 1982|first1=James H.|last1=Cohan|first2=Arthur M.|last2=Greenberg|date=April 19, 1982|publisher=Wu Gallery of Art|isbn=9780936316031|via=Google Books}}</ref> and Helen Ten Broeck Storms Cornell, who had trained as a nursery teacher.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-ChDwAAQBAJ&q=Ten+Broeck+Storms+Cornell+nursery+teacher&pg=PT95|title=A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century|first=Jerome|last=Charyn|date=February 22, 2016|publisher=Bellevue Literary Press|isbn=9781934137994|via=Google Books}}</ref> Both parents came from socially prominent families of Dutch ancestry, long-established in New York State.<ref>https://press.khm.at/fileadmin/content/KHM/Presse/2015/Joseph_Cornell/KHM_Booklet_Cornell_Presse_engl.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> Cornell's father died April 30, 1917, leaving the family in straitened circumstances.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzcrDwAAQBAJ&q=Joseph+Cornell+father+1917&pg=PA211|title=Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde|first=Analisa|last=Leppanen-Guerra|date=July 5, 2017|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781351572057|via=Google Books}}</ref> Following the elder Cornell's death, his widow and children moved to the borough of [[Queens]] in [[New York City]]. Cornell attended [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts|Andover]], Massachusetts, in the class of 1921. Although he reached the senior year, he did not graduate.<ref name="ChildrensStories">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzcrDwAAQBAJ&q=Joseph+Cornell+Phillips+Academy+in+Andover%2C&pg=PA3|title=Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde|first=Analisa|last=Leppanen-Guerra|date=July 5, 2017|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781351572057|via=Google Books}}</ref> Following this, he returned to live with his family.<ref name="ChildrensStories"/>
Except for the three-and-a-half years he spent at Phillips, he lived for most of his life in a small, [[wood-frame house]] on [[Utopia Parkway (Queens)|Utopia Parkway]] in a working-class area of [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]], along with his mother and his brother Robert, whom had [[cerebral palsy]] had rendered physically disabled.<ref name=Cotter2007/><ref name="artinfo.com"/> Aside from his time at Andover, Cornell never traveled beyond the New York City area.<ref name="Dime-Store Alchemy"/>{{rp|xiii}}
==Art practice==
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