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sketches from the Noguchi Museum in LIC
Left side: stone sculpture detail
Right side: playground plans - a swing set!
Isamu Noguchi, Gate, 1969.
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Black / Yellow version. Colours of the sculpture are changed every three years. (Black/Yellow, Black/Orange, Black/Blue).
New York City, 2006
Isamu Noguchi's 28-foot tall piece of public art in the plaza of the Marine Midland Bank building.
Here, it gets a bit of spin right at you, courtesy of some PS.
I've always loved Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube sculpture for some reason, maybe because of the way it tilts on an axis. It sits in the small plaza in front of the Helmsley Building at 140 Broadway in New York.
Installed in April 1968, Red Cube became a landmark overnight. An exterior shot of it can be seen in The April Fools - French actress Catherine Deneuve's first Hollywood movie - which came out in 1969, a year later.
The plaza was getting a power wash at the time I photographed the sculpture.
Isamu Noguchi was the son of Yonejiro Noguchi, a Japanese poet and scholar of English literature, and of Leonie Girmour, an American poet and writer. He was born in Los Angeles in 1904 and died in New York in 1988. He spent his childhood in Japan until the age of thirteen when his mother sent him to be educated in the United States. During his first year at Columbia University where he was a premed student, he dropped out and decided to pursue his interest in sculpture. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, studied in Paris with Brancusi, traveled through Europe and Asia and finally settled in New York in the late Twenties.
This stack of rocks is about 10' high, and carefully fitted.
In his ... gardens ... Noguchi achieved subtle ... syntheses of nature with the man-made, fusing organic and geometric, balancing intuition with intellect. 'California Scenario' seamlessly integrates them. ... it is an enclosed space adjacent to an office building, 'California Scenario' appears open and spacious; the proportional relationship of the asymmetric pyramid to the smaller rocks and plants creates a sense of vastness and scale beyond the actual dimensions of the garden. Local desert stones unify this environment in color and texture. The channel of water running through the center contrasts with, and enhances, the viewer's awareness of the surrounding dryness. The pronounced individuality of elements of the Beinecke courtyard has here matured into a cohesive whole; sculpture and environment are one.
From the catalogue 'Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor', by Valerie Fletcher, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
my gift to myself for enduring this whole home buying & selling process, an authentic isamu noguchi table, has arrived and is proudly displayed in the formal living room.
this icon of mid-century design was first produced in 1948 by isamu noguchi for herman miller, and remains in production today.
sculpture: History of Mexico.
artist: Isamu Noguchi.
date: 1936.
materials: colored cement over sculpted brick base.
Archival photograph.
The landscape architect imported real stalactites from a cave in Italy. No fake, or even domestic, stalactites for the Rockefellers. These were used throughout the gardens and in an interior grotto.
In Costa Mesa, CA there is a artsy park tucked away between some buildings located near South Coast Plaza. This fountain is located near o for the entrances.
The park was designed by: Isamu Noguchi
This is a old picture that I took in 2006.
Here is Moere numa park where the famous artist Isamu Noguchi designed.
Moere-numa park in Sapporo Hokkaido.
PENTAX *ist DS2 / smc PENTAX-FA☆ 85mm F1.4
My resolution the past couple years has been to write more letters. This year I'm going to actually mail them. Chad got me a nice box of FRUiTS postcards to add to my archive of stationery.
Send me your address if you'd like to receive one.
Note: US$ postage goes up on Sunday.