Eine Kleine Schnee-Musik

Joseph Cornell

About 1965

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This colorful, loosely painted, vertically oriented canvas represents flags of various nations (an Allied flag celebration) on New York's Fifth Avenue in October of 1918. The spires of Saint Patrick's Cathedral are visible in the background.
In this black and white round-format print, a large crane hoists a piece of marble into the air. The stone walls of the marble quarry rise steeply behind the crane, and three figures are positioned below and to the right of the piece of marble being hoisted. In the foreground of the image, a still life includes some of the implements of marble quarrying including a piece of marble, hooks, and ropes.
This black and white photograph represents a closely cropped image of a white woman's face. She looks to her left. The top of her head is cropped out of the image, but a bright piece of jewelry can be seen in her hair (or possibly on a hat). She wears a large diamond and pearl earring on her right ear and a three-strand pearl necklace. The right shoulder of her dark coat can be seen in the lower left of the image.
Verso is a single figure study