Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Born Los Angeles, California
- Isamu Noguchi earned international acclaim as a versatile sculptor who created evocative works in media ranging from stone and steel to clay and paper. The son of a Japanese father and an American mother, Noguchi addressed his dual ethnicity through art that was informed by both Eastern and Western aesthetic traditions. He embraced abstraction in response to the pure forms of modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi, but until the early 1940s, Noguchi was best known for his figurative portrait sculpture. In 1935 he created the first of many striking stage sets for dancer-choreographer Martha Graham and later produced a mammoth stainless steel relief for the Associated Press Building in Rockefeller Center (1938). During World War II, Noguchi spent six months in a Japanese American relocation camp. In the postwar period, his work grew to include landscape design, while his sculpture ranged from the monumental to delicate, lantern-like forms.
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Artist
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 19 Nov 1895 - 11 Dec 1989
- Sitter
- Isamu Noguchi, 17 Nov 1904 - 30 Dec 1988
- Date
- 1955
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.2 x 24 cm (9 1/2 x 9 7/16")
- Sheet: 35.4 x 27.6 cm (13 15/16 x 10 7/8")
- Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22")
- Type
- Photograph
