Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell, (Born in Nyack, New York December 24, 1903 – died December 29, 1972) was an American sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant garde and experimental filmmaker who lived in New York City for most of his life in a frame house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, New York, with his mother and his crippled brother, Robert, who was afflicted with cerebral palsy.

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Nyack, New York - December 24 - 1903 - December 29 - 1972 - Assemblage - Surrealist - Experimental filmmaker - New York City - Queens, New York - Cerebral palsy

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