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Isamu Noguchi’s ceiling for the American Stove Company building, 1948, interior design with plaster, colored glass, electric components (St. Louis, MO; Harris Armstrong, architect)
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Isamu Noguchi, model for unrealized design for U.S. Pavilion at Expo ‘70 in Osaka, Japan, 1968, painted plaster, wire, paint
Photos by Kevin Noble
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Photo of Isamu Noguchi’s granite sculptures Ground Wind # 2 (1969, foreground) and Another Land (1968) at his studio in Mure, Shikoku, Japan, ca. 1970s
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Isamu Noguchi guiding the placement of elements in one of two gardens he designed for IBM Headquarters, Armonk, NY, c. 1964
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Isamu Noguchi’s “Garden of the past,” IBM Headquarters, Armonk, NY, 1964
Photos by Minoru Niizuma
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Detail photograph by Isamu Noguchi of his sculpture Student, then installed at his combination indoor/ outdoor space Shin Banraisha, Keio University, Tokyo, c. 1951
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Photograph by Isamu Noguchi of the Lord Vishnu sculpture, Budhanilkantha Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1956
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Isamu Noguchi’s preparatory model for his Constellation (for Louis Kahn) for the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1982, plasticine and plywood
Photo: Galerie Maeght
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Isamu Noguchi, Constellation (for Louis Kahn), 1982, Site-specific grouping of four basalt elements
Photo: Kimbell Art Museum
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Isamu Noguchi, model for unrealized design for playground for United Nations, New York, 1952, plaster
Photo: Charles Uht
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Photographs of Tsukuba granite elements and plantings from Isamu Noguchi’s collaboration with Skidmore Owings & Merrill at First National City Bank Plaza, Fort Worth, Texas, soon after its completion, 1961.
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Isamu Noguchi, Shinto, 1974-75, aluminum (now destroyed)
Commissioned by Bank of Tokyo for its renovated lobby in Manhattan’s Financial District, Noguchi’s Shinto was intended to act as a counterpoint to the Corinthian columns it was suspended between, left intact from the original space by the architects. Unfortunately the looming 17 foot tall form was claimed to have intimidated customers and Bank of Tokyo dismantled and removed it in 1980. Noguchi only learned of its removal after the fact.
Photo by Ezra Stoller / ESTO
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Photograph by Isamu Noguchi of his work Apartment (1952, unglazed Seto stoneware) soon after its completion.
(now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art)
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Photograph by Isamu Noguchi of his ceramics being removed from a kiln (with the multi- element Even the Centipede on the plank in the foreground), Japan, 1952
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Isamu Noguchi, Tamanashiki (The Wrestler), 1931, terra-cotta
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Period study photo of the wrestler Tamanashiki San'emon (1903-1938) from the Noguchi Museum Archive
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Isamu Noguchi, Large Walking Box, 1952, Karatsu stoneware, wood dowels
Photo: Kevin Noble
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