Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor

Oct 28, 2004–Jan 16, 2005

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Figurative wood-like sculpture with handles among stacked convex and concave geometric components

Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor was co-organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition was curated by Valerie Fletcher.

Isamu Noguchi
17 works in the collection, 28 exhibitions
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Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Miss Expanding Universe, 1932. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Uncle Takagi (Portrait of My Uncle), 1931; Isamu Noguchi, Portrait of Immo Gulden, 1934; Isamu Noguchi, Peking Scroll Drawing, (Reclining Female, Nude Holding Head), 1930. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, The Ring, 1945–48; Isamu Noguchi, Cronos, 1947; Isamu Noguchi, The Field, 1948. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Light Sculpture (Lunar), 1944; Isamu Noguchi, Floating Lunar, 1944–45; Isamu Noguchi, Red Lunar Fist, 1943–44. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Lunar Infant, 1944; Isamu Noguchi, Lunar, 1943–44. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Celebration, c 1952; Isamu Noguchi, Cronos, 1947; Isamu Noguchi, Galaxy Calligraphy, 1983–84; Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstraction, 1928. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Calligraphics, 1957; Galaxy Calligraphy, 1983–84, Egan Drawing after Red Lunar Fist, 1948; Egan Drawing After this Torture Earth, 1948; Egan drawing after Plus Equals Minus, 1948; Egan drawing after Night Land, 1948; Egan drawing after Bird’s Nest, 1948; Drawing after TheGunas, 1948; Egan Drawing after Avatar, 1948. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Sun at Noon, 1969; Isamu Noguchi, The Cry, 1959; Isamu Noguchi, The Void, 1970; Isamu Noguchi, The Uncertain Sea, 1968; Isamu Noguchi, To Bring to Life, 1979; Isamu Noguchi, Shodo Shima StoneStudy, 1978; Isamu Noguchi, Black Sun, 1960; Isamu Noguchi, TheBow, 1970; Isamu Noguchi, the Inner Stone, 1973. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Haning Man, 1945; Isamu Noguchi, Stange Bird (to theSunflower)(Unknown Bird), 1945; Isamu Noguchi, Remembrance, 1944; Isamu Noguchi, The Gunas, 1946; Isamu Noguchi, Humpty Dumpty, 1946; Isamu Noguchi, Trinity (Triple), 1945; Isamu Noguchi, Avatar, 1947. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Worksheet for Sculpture, 1945; Isamu Noguchi, Strange Bird (To the Sunflower) (Unknown Bird), 1945; Isamu Noguchi, Worksheet for Sculpture, 1945–47; Isamu Noguchi, Worksheet for “Figure”, 1945; Isamu Noguchi, Worksheet for “To the Sunflower”, 1946; Isamu Noguchi, Worksheet for “the Gunas”, 1946; Isamu Noguchi, Worksheet for Sculpture, 1945. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Leda, 1928; Isamu Noguchi, Red Seed, 1928; Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstraction, 1927–28; Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstraction, 1927–28; Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstraction, 1927–28; Isamu Noguchi, Bolt of Lightning, Model for “Memorial to Ben Franklin”, 1933. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
Installation views of Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 28, 2004–January 26, 2005). Left to right: Isamu Noguchi, Solar, 1958; Isamu Noguchi, Variation ona Millstone #1, 1962; Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstraction, 1927–28; Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstration, 1927–28. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson