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Joseph Cornell

1903 - 1972

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Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American visual artist and filmmaker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. He was largely self-taught in his artistic efforts, and improvised his own original style incorporating cast-off and discarded artifacts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Cornell has received more than 729,224 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Joseph Cornell is the 1,325th most popular painter (down from 1,155th in 2019), the 4,385th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,114th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Painter.

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  • 19

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  • 4.05

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  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joseph Cornell ranks 1,325 out of 2,023. Before him are Meijer de Haan, Luca Carlevarijs, David Vinckboons, Hans Erni, Olga Wisinger-Florian, and Simon Hantaï. After him are Sattar Bahlulzade, Fan Kuan, Barbara Hepworth, Lucien Pissarro, Peter von Hess, and Tahir Salahov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Joseph Cornell ranks 174. Before him are Corrado Bafile, Hans Hedtoft, Gʻafur Gʻulom, Kathleen Lonsdale, Fernando Paternoster, and Natallia Arsiennieva. After him are Barbara Hepworth, André Maschinot, Lili Kraus, Misuzu Kaneko, Johann Horvath, and Ary Barroso. Among people deceased in 1972, Joseph Cornell ranks 125. Before him are Gustav Wiederkehr, Erik Eriksen, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Max Aub, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, and Thomas C. Kinkaid. After him are Rudolf Belling, Stanislaus Kobierski, W. Ross Ashby, Lee Beom-seok, Alfons Gorbach, and Günter Eich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Cornell ranks 4,385 out of 20,380. Before him are Eileen Brennan (1932), Cathy Berberian (1925), Donald "Duck" Dunn (1941), Roy Thinnes (1938), Betty Mahmoody (1945), and Jerry Hall (1956). After him are Lena Horne (1917), B. J. Thomas (1942), Colm Feore (1958), Amy Madigan (1950), Antonio Fargas (1946), and Arthur L. Newton (1883).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Joseph Cornell ranks 54. Before him are Robert Motherwell (1915), Sam Francis (1923), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Sarah Goodridge (1788), Childe Hassam (1859), and Lilla Cabot Perry (1848). After him are Martin Johnson Heade (1819), George Segal (1924), Frank Frazetta (1928), John Trumbull (1756), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), and Adolph Gottlieb (1903).

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