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Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars

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FIGURE 1.1. Miscellaneous books, clippings, and printed materials collected by Cornell.

FIGURE 1.2. Constellation chart, engraved by W. G. Evans under the direction of E. H. Burritt, from E. H. Burritt, The Geography of the Heavens (New York: F. J. Huntington, 1835).

FIGURE 1.3. Joseph Cornell, cover design for Town and Country (March 1939).

FIGURE 1.4. Trimmed photostat reproductions of Hevelius constellation figures of Andromeda and Auriga, from Camille Flammarion, Les Etoiles (Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1882).

FIGURE 1.5. Georgie Starbuck Galbraith, “Enigmas,” Christian Science Monitor, March 4, 1958, as notated by Joseph Cornell.

FIGURE 1.6. Joseph Cornell, Cassiopeia diary notation, 1951.

FIGURE 1.7. La Cassiopée de l’atlas de Bayer (1603); Le Bouvier de l’atlas de Bayer (1603); Constellations zodiacales.—Le Taureau.—Les Gémeaux; Constellations zodiacales.—Les Poissons.—Le Bélier; in Camille Flammarion, Les Etoiles (Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1882).

FIGURE 1.8. Joseph Cornell, untitled, c. 1934.

FIGURE 1.9. Galilée présentant la première lunette astronomique au doge de Venise; Apparition subite de l’étoile nouvelle de 1572, observé par Tycho Brahe; Un jeune homme de 23 ans, Newton, rêvait un soir; William Herschel découvrant la planète Uranus.

FIGURE 1.10. Max Ernst, Mon Petit Mont Blanc, 1922.

FIGURE 1.11. Joseph Cornell, Story without a Name—for Max Ernst, c. 1934–35.

FIGURE 1.12. Man Ray, Electricity—The World (Electricité—Le Monde), 1931.

FIGURE 1.13. Pierre Roy, The Electrification of the Country, 1930.

FIGURE 1.14. Maud Granger as Astronomy, collected by Joseph Cornell.

FIGURE 2.1. Joseph Cornell, Soap Bubble Set, 1936.

FIGURE 2.2. Joseph Cornell, Soap Bubble Set, as reproduced in Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936).

FIGURE 2.3. Installation view of Joseph Cornell’s Elements of Natural Philosophy, from the exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 9, 1936–January 17, 1937.

FIGURE 2.4. Center of gravity clippings, “Natural Philosophy” source material file.

FIGURE 2.5. Ombre des anneaux de Saturne sur la planète, in Camille Flammarion, Les Terres du ciel (Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1884).

FIGURE 2.6. Georges Méliès, film still from The Eclipse (The Courtship of the Sun and Moon), 1907.

FIGURE 2.7. Woodcut engraving of the moon after drawing by Galileo, first published in Sidereus Nuncius, 1610; as illustrated in Petri Gassendi Institutio astronomica (London: Jacobi Flesher, 1653), 19.

FIGURE 2.8. Telescopes—Modern and Ancient and Transparency of Moon in Gibbous Phase, in The Hayden Planetarium (New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1937).

FIGURE 2.9. Specific Gravity Beads, manufactured by Angelo and/or Isabella Lovi, Glasgow, c. 1805.

FIGURE 2.10. “Changing Conceptions of the Universe: A Riddle Still,” New York Times, April 17, 1932.

FIGURE 2.11. Joseph Cornell, Cabinet of Natural History (Object), 1934, 1936–40.

FIGURE 2.12. Joseph Cornell, “Imperious Jewelry of the Universe” (Lunar Baedecker): Portrait of Mina Loy (Daguerreotype Object), 1936.

FIGURE 2.13. Joseph Cornell, untitled, 1930s (Coll., William Kistler, New York).

FIGURE 2.14. Edwin Hubble at the 48” Schmidt Telescope, Mount Palomar Observatory, c. 1947.

FIGURE 2.15. Joseph Cornell, Object (Soap Bubble Set), 1941.

FIGURE 2.16. Theater of Time and Space, New York World’s Fair, 1939.

FIGURE 2.17. Joseph Cornell, announcement for Objects by Joseph Cornell, Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA, 1942.

FIGURE 2.18. Joseph Cornell, Soap Bubble Set, c. 1947–48.

FIGURE 3.1. Joseph Cornell, eclipse sequence from Rose Hobart, c. 1936.

FIGURE 3.2. Donald H. Menzel, “Science Again Turns to the Sun,” New York Times, June 14, 1936.

FIGURE 3.3. Joseph Cornell, opening frame, Rose Hobart, c. 1936.

FIGURE 3.4. Rose Hobart and George Renavent in East of Borneo, 1931.

FIGURE 3.5. Joseph Cornell, untitled book object (Histoire des Temps Modernes), 1939.

FIGURE 3.6. “They’re Ready to ‘Shoot’ the Sun’s Eclipse,” Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 1936.

FIGURE 3.7. Joseph Cornell, film stills from The Children’s Party, c. 1938, finished by Lawrence Jordan, 1965–68.

FIGURE 3.8. Circular into Rectilinear Motion, in Tom Tit, Scientific Amusements (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [n.d.]).

FIGURE 3.9. Joseph Cornell, Hommage à Tamara Toumanova, December 1940.

FIGURE 3.10. Joseph Cornell, untitled illustration to Charles Henri Ford, “Ballet for Tamara Toumanova,” View, ser. 2, no. 4 (January 1943): 36. [“Americana Fantastica” issue].

FIGURE 3.11. J. J. Grandville, L’Etoile du soir, in Joseph Méry, Les Etoiles (Paris: Gonet et Twietmeyer, 1849).

FIGURE 3.12. Georges Méliès, film still from The Eclipse (The Courtship of the Sun and Moon), 1907.

FIGURE 3.13. Hedy Lamarr as a spiral nebula, film still from “You Stepped Out of a Dream,” in Ziegfeld Girl, 1941.

FIGURE 3.14. Hedy Lamarr paper dolls for Ziegfeld Girl, 1941; negative photostat portrait of Hedy Lamarr; collage with photograph and railroad ticket.

FIGURE 3.15. “The Great Whirl of Stars in the Andromeda Nebula, A Million Light Years Away,” in “Strolling Among the Stars,” Christian Science Monitor, December 20, 1941.

FIGURE 3.16. Isamu Noguchi, Miss Expanding Universe, 1932.

FIGURE 3.17. “Spectra of the Stars and Nebulae,” unidentified source, collected by Joseph Cornell.

FIGURE 3.18. Joseph Cornell, untitled (Celestial Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova), c. 1941.

FIGURE 3.19. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (for Tamara Toumanova), c. 1940.

FIGURE 4.1. Joseph Cornell, The Crystal Cage [portrait of Berenice], View, ser. 2, no. 4 (January 1943): 10–13 [“Americana Fantastica” issue].

FIGURE 4.2. Joseph Cornell, The Crystal Cage [portrait of Berenice], View, ser. 2, no. 4 (January 1943): 14–16 [“Americana Fantastica” issue].

FIGURE 4.3. J. J. Grandville, Astronomie des Dames, in Joseph Méry, Les Etoiles (Paris: Gonet et Twietmeyer, 1849).

FIGURE 4.4. Albert Einstein, Edwin P. Hubble, Walther Mayer, Walter S. Adams, Arthur S. King, and William W. Campbell on the footbridge leading to the 100” telescope at Mount Wilson.

FIGURE 4.5. Tycho Brahe’s Observatory of Uraniborg, Island of Hven, 1580.

FIGURE 4.6. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (La Cassiopée), 1930s.

FIGURE 4.7. Coney Island by Night, folding postcard set, labeled “Joe Aug. 9, 1936.”

FIGURE 4.8. Le Bouvier, la Couronne boréale, les Chiens de Chasse, la Chevelure de Berenice, in Camille Flammarion, Les Etoiles (Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1882).

FIGURE 4.9. Joseph Cornell, Americana Fantastica, View, ser. 2, no. 4 (January 1943): front and back cover.

FIGURE 4.10. Source material for View cover and corresponding constellations. Carte-de-visite and cabinet card photographs, Joseph Cornell Study Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum; constellations in Camille Flammarion, Les Etoiles (Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1882).

FIGURE 4.11. Joseph Cornell, The Crystal Cage, View, ser. 2, no. 4 (January 1943): 15 [“Americana Fantastica” issue], with comparative constellations.

FIGURE 4.12. Joseph Cornell, Cassiopeia source material box, c. 1961–62.

FIGURE 4.13. Joseph Cornell, The Crystal Cage [portrait of Berenice], c. 1934–67, valise with printed materials.

FIGURE 4.14. Joseph Cornell, detail of Flash Gordon montage housed in The Crystal Cage [portrait of Berenice], c. 1934–67, valise with printed materials.

FIGURE 4.15. Joseph Cornell, prints and photographs mounted on construction paper, from The Celestial Theater, c. 1940–60.

FIGURE 5.1. Joseph Cornell, Central Park Carrousel, in Memorium, 1950.

FIGURE 5.2. 200” mirror for the Hale Telescope, Mount Palomar Observatory, c. 1948.

FIGURE 5.3. Joseph Cornell, Observatory Colomba Carrousel, 1950.

FIGURE 5.4. The Hale Telescope, Mount Palomar, c. 1948.

FIGURE 5.5. Joseph Cornell, Observatory Corona Borealis Casement, 1950.

FIGURE 5.6. “The 200-inch Hale and (Right) ‘Slice’ of a Spiral Nebula,” unidentified clipping.

FIGURE 5.7. Jackson Pollock, Galaxy, 1947.

FIGURE 5.8. Announcements for Night Voyage exhibition, Egan Gallery, 1953, and Winter Night Skies by Joseph Cornell, Stable Gallery, 1955. Christmas card designs for the Museum of Modern Art: Virgo, 1945; Bird and Stars, 1954; Monocerous, 1957.

FIGURE 5.9. Joseph Cornell, Carrousel, 1952.

FIGURE 5.10. Joseph Cornell, diary entry, October 16, 1970.

FIGURE 5.11. Joseph Cornell, Les Constellations Voisines du Pôle, c. 1951–53.

FIGURE 5.12. Les Constellations voisines du pôle, in Camille Flammarion, Les Etoiles (Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1882).

FIGURE 5.13. Printed materials explaining zodiacal light collected by Cornell.

FIGURE 5.14. “Eclipse to Test Einstein Theory,” Christian Science Monitor, February 13, 1952.

FIGURE 5.15. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Grand Hôtel de l’Observatoire), 1954.

FIGURE 5.16. L’Andromède de l’atlas d’Hévélius (1690) in Camille Flammarion, Les Etoiles (Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1882).

FIGURE 5.17. “Jackie Andromeda” notation and Jackie Lane clipping.

FIGURE 5.18. Joseph Cornell, diary notation, July 2, 1969, 2:30 a.m., “Allegory of Faith” file.

FIGURE 5.19. Fred Hoyle, “Changing Concepts of the Universe,” New York Times, June 1, 1952.

FIGURE 5.20. Joseph Cornell, Hôtel du Nord, c. 1953.

FIGURE 5.21. “Star Types,” “Lunar Eclipse,” and “Sunlight and Rainbows,” in Herbert S. Zim and Robert H. Baker, Stars, A Guide to the Constellations, Sun, Moon, Planets, and Other Features of the Heavens (New York: Golden Press, 1956).

FIGURE 5.22. Joseph Cornell, small boxes with astronomical charts and objects.

FIGURE 5.23. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Window Façade), c. 1953.

FIGURE 5.24. Bible House on Astor Place, in J. Lossing, The Hudson from the Wilderness to the Sea (New York: Virtue and Yorston, 1866).

FIGURE 6.1. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Soap Bubble Set: Système de Copernic), c. 1950.

FIGURE 6.2. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Système de Descartes), c. 1952.

FIGURE 6.3. [François Nicolas] Martinet, Système de Descartes, 1761.

FIGURE 6.4. Joseph Cornell, untitled cardboard box covered with print material.

FIGURE 6.5. Joseph Cornell, Untitled [Yellow Sand Tray, Sun and Planet Images].

FIGURE 6.6. Joseph Cornell, Untitled [Blue Sand Box with Starfish], c. 1952.

FIGURE 6.7. Frontispiece, Sir Thomas Heath, Archimedes (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920).

FIGURE 6.8. Photograph of subatomic particles at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Unidentified clipping, c. 1952–53.

FIGURE 6.9. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Blue Sand Box), early 1950s.

FIGURE 6.10. Meson Star, in Sergio DeBenedetti, “Mesonic Atoms,” Scientific American 195 (October 1956).

FIGURE 6.11. Joseph Cornell, The Birth of the Nuclear Atom, c. 1957.

FIGURE 6.12. “Atomic Theory Is Based upon Indirect Evidence,” in “The Atom, a Primer for Laymen,” Life (May 16, 1949): 6–7.

FIGURE 6.13. Joseph Cornell, Cassiopeia #1, c. 1957–58.

FIGURE 6.14. “Texas and Northern Mexico May Look Something Like This to the Sputnik,” Christian Science Monitor, October 12, 1957.

FIGURE 6.15. “Enough Here to Challenge a Hundred da Vincis!” Scientific American 195 (September 1956).

FIGURE 6.16. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Soap Bubble Set), c. 1957.

FIGURE 6.17. “Lively as a Walk on the Moon,” Scientific American 201 (October 1959).

FIGURE 6.18. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Phases de la lune), c. 1957–58.

FIGURE 6.19. Joseph Cornell, Suzy’s Room (In Mem. Judy Tyler), 1957.

FIGURE 6.20. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Solar Set), c. 1956–58.

FIGURE 6.21. Joseph Cornell, Celestial Navigation, c. 1956–59.

FIGURE 6.22. Joseph Cornell, Radar Astronomy, early 1960s.

FIGURE 6.23. Joseph Cornell, Soap Bubble Variant, c. 1959–60. 194–95

FIGURE 6.24. Joseph Cornell, source materials and notes from Marilyn Monroe file.

FIGURE 6.25. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Custodian II, Silent Dedication to MM), 1962–63.

FIGURE 7.1. Joseph Cornell, How to Make a Rainbow (for Jeanne Eagels), 1963.

FIGURE 7.2. Joseph Cornell, Weather Satellites, 1965.

FIGURE 7.3. “Sixty-foot Telescope of Harvard University,” Scientific American 195 (October 1956).

FIGURE 7.4. Joseph Cornell, untitled, c. 1966.

FIGURE 7.5. Joseph Cornell, Triangles and the Distance to the Moon and Surface and Volume in Nature, in Irving Adler, The Giant Golden Book of Mathematics (New York: Golden Press, 1960).

FIGURE 7.6. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Triangles and Distance to the Moon), c. 1965–72.

FIGURE 7.7. Robert Rauschenberg, Skyway, 1964.

FIGURE 7.8. Joseph Cornell, Now Voyager II, 1966.

FIGURE 7.9. Mars, in Herbert S. Zim and Robert H. Baker, Stars, A Guide to the Constellations, Sun, Moon, Planets, and Other Features of the Heavens (New York: Golden Press), 1956.

FIGURE 7.10. Joseph Cornell, “Penny Arcade” series, re Autumnal, October 14, 15, 1964.

FIGURE 7.11. Joseph Cornell, Rapport de Contreras (Circe), 1966.

FIGURE 7.12. Joseph Cornell, untitled, c. 1970–71.

FIGURE 7.13. Joseph Cornell, untitled, c. 1964.

FIGURE 7.14. Joseph Cornell, A Rainbow Is a Spectrum, c. 1964.

FIGURE 7.15. Joseph Cornell, Untitled [Ship with Nude], mid-1960s.

FIGURE 7.16. L’Andromède de l’atlas de Bayer (1603), in Camille Flammarion, Les Etoiles (Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1882).

FIGURE 7.17. Untitled nude, unidentified magazine source.

FIGURE 7.18. Joseph Cornell, Constellations of Spring / The Model, May 3, 1970.

FIGURE 7.19. Desargues’s Theorem, in Morris Kline, “Geometry,” Scientific American 211 (September 1965).

FIGURE 7.20. Joseph Cornell, untitled, 1960s.

FIGURE 7.21. Joseph Cornell, untitled, late 1960s.

FIGURE 7.22. Joseph Cornell, diary entry, October 16, 1970.

FIGURE 7.23. Joseph Cornell, Les constellations voisines du pôle, May 2, 1971.

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