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{{Short description|American visual artist and film-makerfilmmaker (1903–1972)}}

'''Joseph Cornell''' (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American visual artist and film-makerfilmmaker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of [[Assemblage (art)|assemblage]]. Influenced by the [[Surrealist]]s, he was also an avant-garde [[experimental filmmaker]]. He was largely self-taught in his artistic efforts, and improvised his own original style incorporating cast-off and discarded artifacts. He lived most of his life in relative physical isolation, caring for his mother and his disabled brother at home, but remained aware of and in contact with other contemporary artists.

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=WuWU 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>{{cite book |title=Joseph Cornell: Fernweh |publisher=Kunsthistorisches Museum |first1=Jasper |last1=Sharp |first2=Sarah |last2=Lea |location=Vienna, Austria |date=2015 |url=https://press.khm.at/fileadmin/content/KHM/Presse/2015/Joseph_Cornell/KHM_Booklet_Cornell_Presse_engl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417153821/https://press.khm.at/fileadmin/content/KHM/Presse/2015/Joseph_Cornell/KHM_Booklet_Cornell_Presse_engl.pdf|archive-date=2023-04-17 |access-date=2023-12-26 |isbn=9783990200964}}</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"/>

[[Category:ModernAmerican modern sculptors]]