Soap+Bubble+Set

Date: 1949-1950
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1999/1999.91_1a.jpg?itok=fNP68wE4 width="341" height="290" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/soap-bubble-set-41412"]] || Title: **Soap Bubble Set**

Artist: **Joseph Cornell** Born: Nyack, New York 1903 Died: New York, New York 1972

Medium: wood box construction with glass and mixed media Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 18 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (37.5 x 47.6 x 10.7 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum

Accession: 1999.91 || White clay pipes, often used for blowing soap bubbles, have been traditionally associated with Holland, the country of Cornell's ancestors. As a child he frequently blew bubbles and also read C. V. Boys's //Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them//, a turn-of-the-century classic of scientific literature. Written in the tradition of earlier books prepared for children and laymen, it describes and illustrates experiments demonstrating the pleasurable and instructional aspects of soap bubbles and their relationship to the air and liquids. In Cornell's //Soap Bubble Set// - a playful variation on a young scientist's kit - glass discs bearing illustrations of sea shells, crystals, and amoeboid forms suggest a microscopic view of the natural world associated with bubbles, as well as the marvelous images conjured by blowing them.
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Joseph Cornell Packet 
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About the Artist <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">SAAM Collections Page
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