A Swan Lake for Tamara Toumanova: Homage to the Romantic Ballet, 1946, Box construction with blue glass and painted glass, 9 1/2 x 13 x 4 inches (24.1 x 33 x 10.2 cm), The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of Alexander Iolas

SALEM, MA.- The Peabody Essex Museum will feature Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, on view April 28, 2007—August 19, 2007. Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in more than 26 years. Featuring 180 works, the PEM venue is the largest of this touring exhibition which includes the artist’s finest box constructions, collages, dossiers, films and graphic designs from public and private collections––more than 30 on public view for the first time. Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, chief curator of the Peabody Essex Museum, and a widely published scholar on Cornell, is curator of the exhibition. Co-organized by the Peabody Essex Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Navigating the Imagination presents new insights into Cornell’s career, illuminating the richness of the ideas he explored across all media. la suite de l'article sur http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19474

Untitled (Tilly Losch), 1935–38, Box construction, The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, Courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC, Photo by Mark Gulezian/Quicksilver, © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, New York