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"Dijonesque" for Sublime
n.d. Joseph Cornell Born: Nyack, New York 1903 Died: New York, New York 1972 collage 9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation 1991.155.75 Not currently on view
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"Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion...and the discovery of a standard of judgment."--Epictetus, Discourses, II:11...
1954 Leo Lionni Born: Amsterdam, Netherlands 1910 Died: Radda, Tuscany, Italy 1999 colored paper and colored plastic mounted on paperboard sheet: 24 7/8 x 18 1/4 in. (63.2 x 46.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.184 Not currently on view
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"In the meantime while the tortoise came jogging on with a slow but continued pace, and the hare out of too great a security and confidence of victory overslept herself, the tortoise arrived at the end of
ca. 1962 Herbert Bayer Born: Haag, Austria 1900 Died: Montecito, California 1985 ink and gouache, photomechanical reproduction heightened with white, and pen ink heightened with white on paper mounted on gouache on colored paper mounted on paperboard sheet: 17 1/2 x 13 in. (44.3 x 33.1 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.10 Not currently on view
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"It is impossible, if no more than one opinion is uttered, to make choice of the best: a man is forced then to follow whatever advice may have been given him; but if opposite speeches are delivered, then choice can be exercised. In like manner pure gold
1950 Paul Rand Born: New York, New York 1914 Died: Norwalk, Connecticut 1996 gelatin silver print and gouache on paper and gouache on paperboard sheet: 18 5/8 x 14 in. (47.2 x 35.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.241 Not currently on view
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"Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them."--Johann Wolfgang Goethe, remark to a German historian, 1813. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1959 Erberto Carboni Born: Parma, Italy 1899 Died: Milan, Italy 1984 photograph and paper collage, watercolor and gouache on paperboard sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 3/4 in. (35.8 x 27.2 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.43 Not currently on view
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"The real democratic American idea is not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty without hinderance, to be what God made him."--Henry Ward Beecher on Liberty and Equality. From the series Great Ideas.
1958 Paul Rand Born: New York, New York 1914 Died: Norwalk, Connecticut 1996 cut paper, gouache, watercolor and crayon on paper mounted on paperboard with acetate overlay sheet: 18 x 13 1/2 in. (45.6 x 34.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.240 Not currently on view
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life."--Theodore Roosevelt. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1959 Herbert Bayer Born: Haag, Austria 1900 Died: Montecito, California 1985 photomontage, paper collage, watercolor and gouache on paperboard sheet: 16 x 13 3/8 in. (40.7 x 33.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.24 Not currently on view
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"What we need now to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to man as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatable with their spiritual selves as
1964 Pauline Boty Born: London, England 1938 Died: 1966 watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink, and photomechanical reproductions on paperboard sheet: 29 3/8 x 21 1/2 in. (74.7 x 54.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.35 Not currently on view
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#1 Acqua
n.d. Joseph Cornell Born: Nyack, New York 1903 Died: New York, New York 1972 collage 9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation 1991.155.51 Not currently on view
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(Untitled)
n.d. Joseph Cornell Born: Nyack, New York 1903 Died: New York, New York 1972 ink, paper, mechanical reproduction, crayon, opaque watercolor 15 x 12 1/8 in. (38.2 x 30.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Elizabeth C. Benton 1976.131.1 Not currently on view