Another interesting thing I saw at Stanford’s art museum, Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art:
Image: Joseph Cornell (U.S.A., 1903–1972), Radar Astronomy, 1952–56, mixed media
Note how ol’ Uncle Joe applies his signature to the back of the box: reversed. It looks like he painted his signature on thin vellum and, when dry, glued it face down, leaving the signature reversed when viewed from behind, but “right reading” if viewed from the front of the box and you could actually see through the back of the box to see the signature.
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