Isamu Noguchi

American, 1904 - 1988

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Gemini G.E.L., Isamu Noguchi, Peter Carlson, Cloud Mountain, started 1982, published 1983, galvanized steel, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roger P. Sonnabend, 1986.90.23

Cloud Mountain

Gemini G.E.L., Isamu Noguchi, Peter Carlson · started 1982, published 1983 · galvanized steel ·  Accession ID  1986.90.23

Isamu Noguchi, Peter Carlson, Gemini G.E.L., Giacometti's Shadow, started 1982, published 1983, galvanized steel, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roger P. Sonnabend, 1986.90.24

Giacometti's Shadow

Isamu Noguchi, Peter Carlson, Gemini G.E.L. · started 1982, published 1983 · galvanized steel ·  Accession ID  1986.90.24

A rough-hewn block of basalt sits upright on a rectangular stone base on a pale pink stone floor against a stone wall. In this photograph, we are off the front left corner of the free-standing sculpture in a space filled with natural light. The tongue-shaped basalt is narrower from front to back and wider from side to side. It is about three times taller than it is wide at its widest. Some of the dark brown basalt running up the center of the block is smooth but most is pitted. Strips up either side have been carved to expose rough, copper-colored stone, some of which has flaked away. The tan stone base is speckled densely with gray, and the leaves of an indoor but mature tree bow into the top left corner of the photograph.
Isamu Noguchi, Great Rock of Inner Seeking, 1974, basalt, Gift of Arthur M. Sackler, M.D., and Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D., 1976.58.1

Great Rock of Inner Seeking

Isamu Noguchi · 1974 · basalt ·  Accession ID  1976.58.1

Isamu Noguchi, Untitled, 1946, collage with graphite on graph paper mounted on black construction paper, Gift of Regina Slatkin, Carole and Laura Slatkin, 1990.58.7

Untitled

Isamu Noguchi · 1946 · collage with graphite on graph paper mounted on black construction paper ·  Accession ID  1990.58.7

Isamu Noguchi, Untitled, 1945, wood, Gift (Partial and Promised) of Robert P. and Arlene R. Kogod, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.45.1

Untitled

Isamu Noguchi · 1945 · wood ·  Accession ID  1991.45.1