A hummingbird hovers inside a glass dome surrounded by geometric stones and a blue sky.

Drawings

Weather Satellites

c. 1965

Medium
Collage on paper
Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 11 1/2 × 9 in. (29.2 × 22.9 cm) Overall: 15 5/8 × 12 9/16 × 1 3/4 in. (39.7 × 31.9 × 4.4 cm)
Accession number
82.23
Acquired
1982
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Richard Brown Baker, the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Felicia Meyer Marsh Purchase Fund, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Marsteller and an anonymous donor
Reproduction credit
© The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Joseph Cornell, Weather Satellites, c. 1965. Collage on paper, sheet (Sight): 11 1/2 × 9 in. (29.2 × 22.9 cm) Overall: 15 5/8 × 12 9/16 × 1 3/4 in. (39.7 × 31.9 × 4.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Richard Brown Baker, the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Felicia Meyer Marsh Purchase Fund, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Marsteller and an anonymous donor 82.23. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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