Collage Entre Chien et Loup

This enigmatic work by Joseph Cornell, an artist best known for his boxes that combine many small objects together (one of which is on display downstairs), can almost be read as a box in two dimensions, containing images, text and stamps. When asked about its meaning, one of Cornell's assistants wrote in 1994 that its title, "Collage Between Dog and Wolf", means "…neither daylight nor dark, the blind man's holiday. Generally applied to the evening dusk." In the 1950s, Cornell used the phrase "entre chien et loup" in conjunction with a discussion of "great wonderment and synthesis…a glance full of marvels" and as being a time of "owl light."