Nov 16, 2018
Isamu Noguchi’s ceiling for the American Stove Company building, 1948, interior design with plaster, colored glass, electric components (St. Louis, MO; Harris Armstrong, architect)
Unknown photographer
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Isamu Noguchi’s ceiling for the American Stove Company building, 1948, interior design with plaster, colored glass, electric components (St. Louis, MO; Harris Armstrong, architect)
Unknown photographer
The Noguchi Museum Archive
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).
Isamu Noguchi, model for unrealized design for U.S. Pavilion at Expo ‘70 in Osaka, Japan, 1968, painted plaster, wire, paint
Photos by Kevin Noble
The Noguchi Museum
Photo of Isamu Noguchi’s granite sculptures Ground Wind # 2 (1969, foreground) and Another Land (1968) at his studio in Mure, Shikoku, Japan, ca. 1970s
Unknown photographer
The Noguchi Museum Archive
Isamu Noguchi, model for unrealized design for playground for United Nations, New York, 1952, plaster
Photo: Charles Uht
The Noguchi Museum Archive
Photograph by Isamu Noguchi of the Lord Vishnu sculpture, Budhanilkantha Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1956
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Isamu Noguchi’s preparatory model for his Constellation (for Louis Kahn) for the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1982, plasticine and plywood
Photo: Galerie Maeght
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Isamu Noguchi, Constellation (for Louis Kahn), 1982, Site-specific grouping of four basalt elements
Photo: Kimbell Art Museum
The Noguchi Museum Archive
Photograph by Isamu Noguchi of his work Apartment (1952, unglazed Seto stoneware) soon after its completion.
(now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art)
The Noguchi Museum Archive