Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor
Oct 28, 2004–Jan 16, 2005
Isamu Noguchi, The Queen, 1931/c.1943. Earthenware, overall: 43 7/8 × 16 × 16 in. (111.4 × 40.6 × 40.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 69.107a-c. © The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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.
Installation photography
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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
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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, 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
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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, The Ring, 1945–48; Isamu Noguchi, Cronos, 1947; Isamu Noguchi, The Field, 1948. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
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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, Light Sculpture (Lunar), 1944; Isamu Noguchi, Floating Lunar, 1944–45; Isamu Noguchi, Red Lunar Fist, 1943–44. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
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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, Lunar Infant, 1944; Isamu Noguchi, Lunar, 1943–44. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
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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, Celebration, c 1952; Isamu Noguchi, Cronos, 1947; Isamu Noguchi, Galaxy Calligraphy, 1983–84; Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstraction, 1928. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
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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, 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
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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, 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
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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, 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
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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, 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
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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, 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
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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, 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