![]() Status On View, Gallery 397 Department Prints and Drawings Artist Joseph Cornell Title Now, Voyager Place United States (Object made in) Date 1966 Medium Collage composed of cut and pasted, commercially printed papers, with brush and black ink and touches of yellow gouache on untempered masonite Dimensions 289 × 213 mm Credit Line Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection Reference Number 1982. Entry, Dawn Ades, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, p. ![]() In Cornell‘s collage a child of uncertain gender is shown riding a merry-go-round horse, but the child’s distant gaze and the planets above hint at an imagined voyage of much grander dimensions. ![]() Here, though, the combination of title and image suggests a journey of a more interior kind, which is indeed evoked by Whitman‘s poem, and is a theme developed in both the novel and movie: these focus on the growth of the main protagonist, Charlotte Vale, from repressive childhood into mature adulthood. Now, Voyager, Sail Thou Forth, To Seek and Find Poster Transportation Art Partake in a sailing regatta or feel the wind in your hair. The title’s attraction for Cornell, given the voyage theme in so many of his works, is obvious. Now Voyager was also the name of a 1941 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty and of a 1942 movie, based on the novel, starring Bette Davis. The title of this collage originally derives from a two-line poem by Walt Whitman: “The untold want by life and land ne’er granted,/ Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find” (“The Untold Want” [I87l), in Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose, New York, 1982, p.
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