It's called Cockatoo and Corks, dating from 1948. The artist is Joseph Cornell, who was from New York State. He specialized in these little boxed assemblages. This is a jaunty little interior. The bird is there, ready to greet you when you get home, and honestly a little overwhelming.
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According to wikipedia Joseph Cornell was fairly reclusive most of his life but he did make some interesting artwork. The bird box is nice.
Interesting that you found some work by someone who made shadow boxes. In 1972 Inger and I went to see a gallery show by the Surrealist artist Alan Glass. I hadn't remembered his name but this morning I looked up shadow box exhibit Montreal 1972 and found him right away. Unlike Joseph Cornell, Glass travelled extensively and had an amazing collection of objects he'd accumulated on his travels. Outside that day there was a white rabbit sitting in a cage with just the tips of his fur dyed a faint green. he was lovely.
Here's a link to Alan Glass's artwork. I wouldn't expect you to read it all but there's a nice selection of his work - some of the pieces were quite large and very memorable.
That's a pretty good summary. He seems to have been quite shy and retiring as a person, but this certainly didn't keep him from creating art.
That's a neat story about Alan Glass. The rabbit's fur, presumably, would just have been white if you had seen it a month later. But art can be transient and ephemeral as well. Glass has an extensive reputation, even if he's pretty far from being a household name. He died just this year and some of the works in his collection are from the final years of his life. They're good, too.
Nice link. The lightbulbs on a dinner tray is a nifty idea. Private collection, natch. There's also a neat framed piece that quotes Chirico and has a silhouette of a girl pushing a hoop.
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