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Museums page for Isamu Noguchi ((1904 - 1988)), known for Abstract sculpture, mod mediums. Showing 28 museum collections and exhibitions.
Isamu Noguchi MUSEUMS
1904 Los Angeles, California - 1988 New York City. Known for: Abstract sculpture, mod mediums.
Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles to a Japanese father and American mother, created work that philosophically and materially bridged the Japanese and American cultures and also broadened the notion... Read full biography
Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles to a Japanese father and American mother, created work that philosophically and materially bridged the Japanese and American cultures and also broadened the notion of American sculpture. With his large abstract pieces he combined mediums such as stone, wood, and... Read full biography
Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles to a Japanese father and American mother, created work that philosophically and materially bridged the Japanese and American cultures and also broadened the notion of American sculpture. With his large abstract pieces he combined mediums such as stone, wood, and marble, included the use of water and light, and had opposing textures of rough and smooth. He also introduced themes of tension and gravity and through this and positioning, explored relationships... Read full biography
Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles to a Japanese father and American mother, created work that philosophically and materially bridged the Japanese and American cultures and also broadened the notion of American sculpture. With his large abstract pieces he combined mediums such as stone, wood, and marble, included the use of water and light, and had opposing textures of rough and smooth. He also introduced themes of tension and gravity and through this and positioning, explored relationships between objects. "Noguchi shows how well he has absorbed the Japanese manner of placing objects so that they seem to emerge inevitably from the ground rather than to be located arbitrarily in space." (Baigell, 255). He experimented widely with new... Read full biography
Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles to a Japanese father and American mother, created work that philosophically and materially bridged the Japanese and American cultures and also broadened the notion of American sculpture. With his large abstract pieces he combined mediums such as stone, wood, and marble, included the use of water and light, and had opposing textures of rough and smooth. He also introduced themes of tension and gravity and through this and positioning, explored relationships between objects. "Noguchi shows how well he has absorbed the Japanese manner of placing objects so that they seem to emerge inevitably from the ground rather than to be located arbitrarily in space." (Baigell, 255). He experimented widely with new materials, used aluminum extensively, and created the first illuminated sculptures, and in much of his work, the bases were an integral pa... Read full biography
Isamu Noguchi - Artist Info
About Isamu Noguchi: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (28)
All MuseumsBuffalo AKG Art Museum
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
Mail To: Po Box 37012/Hmsg Mrc 350
Washington, DC 20013-7012Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036McNay Art Museum
6000 North New Braunfels Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78209-0069National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20001Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1219 Sw Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10128Storm King Art Center
Old Pleasant Hill Road
P.O.Box 280
Mountainville, NY 10953-0280The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Empire State Plaza Art Collection
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12242The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
36-01 43rd Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009-1090The University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 N. Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0002University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271