Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell 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. He lived most of his life in relative physical isolation, caring for his mother and his disabled brother at home, but remained aware of and in contact with other contemporary artists.

24 December 1903

Born on the same birth date (24 December 1903): Ava Helen Pauling • Ernst Krenkel

Born on the same birth day (24 December): Bob Shaw (golfer) • Brigetta Barrett • E. Roland Harriman • Glenn McQueen • Honoré II, Prince of Monaco • Ilham Aliyev • J. D. Walsh (actor) • John, King of England • Kyrylo Fesenko • Matt Frawley • Norman Rossington • Ralph Marterie • Robert Joffrey • Scott Fischer • Ville Pörhölä • Willem IV van den Bergh

Born in the same month (December 1903): Ava Helen Pauling • Carlos Montoya • Elisha Cook Jr. • Ernst Krenkel • George Davis Snell • Harold Whitlock • Johannes Heesters • John von Neumann • Nikolai Voznesensky • Una Merkel • Walter Rangeley • Zelma Watson George