Collages
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Cornell recorded his struggles to create this collage, which features the quince tree that stood in the backyard of the Cornell family home at 3708 Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens, on the back of the work. He initially thought it to be a "reject," but was inspired to finish it in the in the early morning hours of March 10, 1969.
Cornell's diaries are filled with minute observations of the world immediately around him. He often wrote of the activity of birds and squirrels that visited his backyard quince tree and of the tree's changing appearance during different seasons of the year. On the day he completed this collage, he noted that jays and a sparrow had squabbled in its snow-covered branches.
Cornell's diaries are filled with minute observations of the world immediately around him. He often wrote of the activity of birds and squirrels that visited his backyard quince tree and of the tree's changing appearance during different seasons of the year. On the day he completed this collage, he noted that jays and a sparrow had squabbled in its snow-covered branches.
