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May 21, 2018, 17 tweets

Isamu Noguchi (Japanese sculptor) with “Undine” (1925)

Undine = (Nadja)

This 1926 work, the only full-figure sculpture by the artist known to still exist, reveals the young Noguchi’s mastery of traditional form.

#Japan #Nippon #MidCentury

“We are a landscape of all we have seen.”

Isamu Noguchi

New York. The Studio of Onorio Ruotolo, Known as the “Rodin of Little Italy”, 1920.

Ruotolo opened the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art, on East 10th Street and Avenue A in 1923.

Mid Century Modernist Japanese American Isamu Noguchi was a student.

ISAMU NOGUCHI, Noguchi’s atelier, Shikoku, Japan. Photography by Takashi Yasumura, Wall Street Journal. / WSJ.

Noguchi was the son of a Japanese poet and a European American writer.

“Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.”

— Isamu Noguchi

Martha Graham & Isamu Noguchi...

ballet and modern dance and mid century sculpture.

Isamu Noguchi
Artist

Photographer: Louise Dahl-Wolfe,

19 Nov 1895 - Dec 1989

Sitter
Isamu Noguchi, 17 Nov 1904 - 30 Dec 1988

1955
Photograph
Gelatin silver print
Isamu Noguchi

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights

Arnold Newman
(1947 - Printed Later)

Isamu Noguchi.

Isamu Noguchi,
Japanese American.

“Orpheus”, 1958,
aluminum with maple base.

Photo by Kevin Noble.

The Noguchi Museum.

‘E=MC²,’
1944,
(Papier-mâché).

Isamu Noguchi,

(Photo: The Noguchi Museum)

Isamu Noguchi
(Japanese-American sculptor, architect and designer) (1904-1988)

The Sun at Midnight,  1980

Photograph by Isamu Noguchi:

“Erechtheion with the porch of Caryatids, Greece, 1949”

ISAMU NOGUCHI,
“Heart of Darkness, 1974.”

Material obsidian (wooden base by Noguchi).

Part of permanent exhibition at the Noguchi Museum, New York.

Image copyright by Scandinavian Collectors 2016. ❤️this.

“The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature… But I am also a sculptor of the West. I place my mark and do not hide.”

— Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi with his Akari Light Sculptures, possibly in Gifu, Japan (where they are fabricated), 1968.

Unknown photographer.
Noguchi Museum.

Isamu Noguchi, Plus Equals Minus, 1945, alabaster.
Photo by Kevin Noble.
The Noguchi Museum.

Isamu Noguchi: bust of Bukminster Fuller Date: circa 1935

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