Thursday, June 26, 2025

Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi
Paris Abstraction
ca. 1927-28
gouache on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Isamu Noguchi
Ruth Parks
1929
bronze
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Winold Reiss
Isamu Noguchi
ca. 1929
pastel on paper
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Isamu Noguchi
Abstract Composition
1930
pochoir
Art Institute of Chicago

Isamu Noguchi
The Queen
1931
terracotta
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

George Platt Lynes
Isamu Noguchi
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Isamu Noguchi
Portrait Head (Fernand Léger)
1941
plaster
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Isamu Noguchi
Lunar Landscape
1943-44
embellished cement relief
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Isamu Noguchi
Work-Sheet for Sculpture
1945
gouache on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Arnold Newman
Isamu Noguchi
1947
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Isamu Noguchi
Rocking Stool
1955
teak and steel
Art Institute of Chicago

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Isamu Noguchi
1955
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Isamu Noguchi
Enigma
1957
cast iron
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Isamu Noguchi
Endless Coupling
1957
metal and stone
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Isamu Noguchi
Lekythos
1958
marble
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Isamu Noguchi
Grey Sun
1967
marble
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

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)