joseph cornell’s old house

Published on Friday 26 May 2006 in images. 2 Comments

37-08 utopia parkway

Here’s Joseph Cornell’s old house, 37-08 Utopia Parkway, returned to suburbia – note the door hanging.

(Related: an account of meeting Cornell as a child.)

Karin Murphy
Monday 12 April 2010 at 11:36

I lived next door to Mr. Cornell as a child. He gave one of his pieces to my parents as a gift and after he passed, my parents sold it to John Lennon and Yoko Ono for $1,000, which at the time, was a lot of money to my parents who immigrated to the US from post war Germany. I just visited the Phoenix Art Museum and saw one of his pieces. It brought back so many fond memories of him.

Karin
Tina
Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 0:17

I never knew Joseph Cornell, but my family did. My mother often cooked for him and did light house cleaning. My sister Fran and Jeanette also did little things around the house for him. My now brother in law used to make the box frames for his art pieces. I am sorry I never met him. His art was simple in material, but beautiful and complex in meaning.