A wooden framed display shows four wine glasses with blue marbles, a speckled ball, and a small white bird.

Sculpture

Celestial Navigation

c. 1958

Medium
Assemblage of painted wood and printed papers, aperitif glasses, marbles, plaster head, painted cork ball, metal rods, brad nails and painted glass
Dimensions
Overall: 10 × 16 3/8 × 3 7/8 in. (25.4 × 41.6 × 9.8 cm)
Accession number
92.24a-e
Acquired
1992
Credit line
60th Anniversary Gift of Estée Lauder, Inc.
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, Celestial Navigation, c. 1958. Assemblage of painted wood and printed papers, aperitif glasses, marbles, plaster head, painted cork ball, metal rods, brad nails and painted glass, overall: 10 × 16 3/8 × 3 7/8 in. (25.4 × 41.6 × 9.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 60th Anniversary Gift of Estée Lauder, Inc. 92.24a-e. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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