Noguchi sculpture

Isamu Noguchi Artworks, galleries and exhibitions. Build your contemporary art collection with Ocula.

For Noguchi, sculpture was “useful” not in any purposeful sense, but rather as a means to stimulate thought, a mantra on display in Useless Architecture

View Neo-Lithic (Gemini 1070) By Noguchi Isamu; 72 x 29 x 16in. (182.9 x 73.7 x 48.3cm.); . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

A biography of the great border-crossing sculptor.

The Noguchi Museum delves into two forgotten projects by Isamu Noguchi, conceived at the height of American modernism. The Sculptor and the Ashtray explores Noguchi’s efforts to design the perfect ashtray (a near-universal tabletop accessory in that era), and Composition for Idlewild Airport...

Isamu Noguchi: Kouros (53.87a-i) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Born in America to a Japanese father and an American mother, famed modern artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi spent the majority of his childhood in Japan before coming to the US to continue his schooling in 1918. He would later sculpt one of his masterpieces, “Kouros”, in Etowah Pink marble from the Tate quarry. The work is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Noguchi 1962