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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 film-maker, 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 687,635 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Cornell is the 1,156th most popular painter (down from 1,028th in 2019), the 4,125th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,620th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joseph Cornell ranks 1,156 out of 1,421Before him are Giottino, George Segal, Marlene Dumas, Georg Pencz, Carlo Cignani, and Carl Moll. After him are Ilya Glazunov, Serge Poliakoff, Pablo Gargallo, Vilhelms Purvītis, Rudolf von Alt, and Jean Jouvenet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Joseph Cornell ranks 156Before him are Pierre Veyron, Fumiko Hayashi, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Louis Seigner, Bix Beiderbecke, and Earl Hines. After him are W. Ross Ashby, Gaito Gazdanov, Ona Munson, Peppino De Filippo, Rudolf Wolters, and Lili Kraus. Among people deceased in 1972, Joseph Cornell ranks 116Before him are Alfons Gorbach, Maximus V of Constantinople, Ennio Flaiano, Cecil Day-Lewis, Max Aub, and Vladimir Durković. After him are W. Ross Ashby, Edward Calvin Kendall, Lee Beom-seok, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, August Zaleski, and Erik Eriksen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Cornell ranks 4,125 out of 18,182Before him are Michael Weatherly (1968), Mark Donohue (1937), Muggsy Bogues (1965), Tommy Mottola (1949), Roy Jones Jr. (1969), and Paul Gilbert (1966). After him are Peter Steele (1962), Ellen Church (1904), Mort Shuman (1938), John C. Lilly (1915), Stan Winston (1946), and Pamela Sue Martin (1953).

Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Joseph Cornell ranks 54Before him are James Turrell (1943), Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), Ad Reinhardt (1913), James Rosenquist (1933), John Singleton Copley (1738), and George Segal (1924). After him are Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Mark Tobey (1890), John Trumbull (1756), Childe Hassam (1859), George Catlin (1796), and Alice Neel (1900).