Jan 2, 2019
Remembering Sono Osato, dancer, actor, and philanthropist (August 29, 1919–December 26, 2018). Born in Omaha to a Japanese father and French-Irish mother, Osato became at 14 the youngest member of the renowned Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and the first of Japanese American descent, and went on to perform with the Ballet Theater in New York and on Broadway. Isamu Noguchi sculpted a portrait of the rising star in 1940. Read more about her life in the @nytimes. — Eliot Elisofon, Portrait of Sono Osato with Isamu Noguchi and ‘Sono Osato,’ 1940, plaster. Photograph in the #NoguchiArchives. ©The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images / The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS).