The Noguchi Museum

Isamu Noguchi, The Inhabitant, 1962-63, bronze, aluminum

Photo: Akira Takahashi

Isamu Noguchi, Leda, 1942, alabaster

Photo: Kevin Noble

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)

Unknown photographer

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

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

Unknown photographer

(Above) 

Isamu Noguchi guiding the placement of elements in one of two gardens he designed for IBM Headquarters, Armonk, NY, c. 1964 

(Below)

Isamu Noguchi’s “Garden of the past,” IBM Headquarters, Armonk, NY, 1964

Photos by Minoru Niizuma

Photograph by Isamu Noguchi of a friend viewing a grasshopper atop a wooden finial, unknown temple, Japan, c. 1950s. 

Detail photograph by Isamu Noguchi of his sculpture Student, then installed at his combination indoor/ outdoor space Shin Banraisha, Keio University, Tokyo, c. 1951

Photograph by Isamu Noguchi of the Lord Vishnu sculpture, Budhanilkantha Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1956

(top)

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

 (bottom)

Isamu Noguchi, Constellation (for Louis Kahn), 1982, Site-specific grouping of four basalt elements

Photo: Kimbell Art Museum

Isamu Noguchi, model for unrealized design for playground for United Nations, New York, 1952, plaster

Photo: Charles Uht

Isamu Noguchi, Untitled, 1972, serpentine, marble

Photo: Wernher Krutein

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.

Unknown photographer (possibly Noguchi’s own)

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

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) 

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