- Name
- Isamu Noguchi
- Born
- Los Angeles, California
- Died
- New York, New York
- born Los Angeles, CA 1904-died New York City 1988
- Active in
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- Shikoko Island, Japan
- Nationalities
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American
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Isamu Noguchi
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Isamu Noguchi, Archaic / Modern
Sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) made works that “speak of both the modern and the ancient in the same breath.” An essay by Dakin Hart traces themes in Noguchi’s sixty-year career—an expansive vision that ranged from landscape art to garden and playground designs, from sculptures featuring plan
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Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
In eighty-eight striking paintings and sculptures, Crosscurrents captures modernism as it moved from early abstractions by O’Keeffe, to Picasso and Pollock in midcentury, to pop riffs on contemporary culture by Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Tom Wesselmann—all illustrating the com
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Related Exhibitions
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Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern
November 11, 2016 – March 19, 2017Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and G Streets, NW)Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was among the most innovative American sculptors of the twentieth century, creating works that were far ahead of his time. His design for Sculpture to Be Seen from Mars (1947) anticipates the space age by several decades.
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The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
March 5, 2010 — January 30, 2011Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)The Art of Gaman showcases arts and crafts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II.