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Isamu Noguchi Paris Abstraction ca. 1927-28 gouache on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Isamu Noguchi Ruth Parks 1929 bronze Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Winold Reiss Isamu Noguchi ca. 1929 pastel on paper National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Isamu Noguchi Abstract Composition 1930 pochoir Art Institute of Chicago |
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Isamu Noguchi The Queen 1931 terracotta Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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George Platt Lynes Isamu Noguchi ca. 1935 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Isamu Noguchi Portrait Head (Fernand Léger) 1941 plaster Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Isamu Noguchi Lunar Landscape 1943-44 embellished cement relief Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Isamu Noguchi Work-Sheet for Sculpture 1945 gouache on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Arnold Newman Isamu Noguchi 1947 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Isamu Noguchi Rocking Stool 1955 teak and steel Art Institute of Chicago |
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Louise Dahl-Wolfe Isamu Noguchi 1955 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Isamu Noguchi Enigma 1957 cast iron Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Isamu Noguchi Endless Coupling 1957 metal and stone Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Isamu Noguchi Lekythos 1958 marble Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Isamu Noguchi Grey Sun 1967 marble Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Irving Penn Isamu Noguchi 1983 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
from The Diary of the duc de L***
That night after the opera we walked
Where marigolds, obedient populace,
By day lend flame to the fountains but at night
Are caught up wholly in a quenching dark.
There were stars and, elsewhere, fireworks; and we went
Until we heard inside the summerhouse
The ancient princess at her spinet playing
And talking to herself when the music stopped.
What music fleshless as a theorem
And what mad voice –
– James Merrill (1947)