Object Details
- Creator
- Cornell, Joseph
- Subject
- Toumanova, Tamara
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- Collage : 1 sheet : various media ; 22 x 27 cm.
- Summary
- Collage shows Tamara Toumanova dancing, her legs and costume made out of what looks like a constellation of stars or a mass of snowflakes.
Inscription (handwritten) beneath image: But the snowflakes, hard as diamond butterflies, [?] stopped in mid-air, like a net of stars that no one, not even Tamara can move among! - Citation
- Joseph Cornell. Collage of Tamara Toumanova dancing, between 1940 and 1970. Joseph Cornell papers, 1804-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- between 1940 and 1970
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)8179
- Type
- Artworks
- See more items in
- Joseph Cornell papers, 1804-1986, bulk 1939-1972
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Ballet
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_8179
