Though he was a visual artist, Joseph Cornell seemed more like a literary recluse, a soulmate of Emily Dickinson. Cornell was bird-like in stature, dreamy in temperament and monkish when it came ...

Rich Sanders/The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial ... Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona/1991 Hans Namuth Estate Cornell also worked as an experimental film-maker ...

By Deborah Solomon Deborah Solomon is an art critic and the author of “Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell.” Joseph Cornell, who died in 1972 at the age of 69, belongs to the ...

Joseph Cornell, Egypte de Mlle. Cleo de Merode: cours elementaire d’histoire naturelle (Miss Cleo de Merode’s Egypt: Elementary Natural History Course), 1940. Courtesy National Gallery of Art ...

“Joseph Cornell and Surrealism” opened at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia on March 7 and ran through June 8, 2014.