Object Details
Artist
Isamu Noguchi, American, b. Los Angeles, California, 1904–1988
Provenance
M.E. Meyer, Switzerland, from 1960s
Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York, to 22 April 1986
Regents Collections Acquisition Program with Matching Funds from the Thomas M. Evans, Jerome L. Greene, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, and Sydney and Frances Lewis Purchase Fund, 1986
Exhibition History
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Recent Acquisitions 1983-1986," 17 November 1986-1 March 1987, unpublished checklist.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York, "Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor," 28 October 2004-16 January 2005. TOUR: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 10 February-8 May 2005.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Grand re-opening exhibition, 1 July 2006-4 July 2007.
Published References
UNSIGNED. "La Chronique des Arts: Principales Acquisitions des Musees en 1986," Gazette des Beaux-Arts no. 1418 (March 1987): no. 178, p. 29.
ILSE-NEWMAN, URSULA. Jewelry of Ideas: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection (New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2017), fig. 4a (color), p. 11.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 102, p. 119.
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Regents Collections Acquisition Program and Thomas M. Evans, Jerome L. Greene, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, and Sydney and Frances Lewis Purchase Fund, 1986
Date
(1947/cast 1963)
Accession Number
86.5888
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze and steel wire on stone base
Dimensions
89 5/8 × 27 5/8 × 44 5/8 in. (227.6 × 70.2 × 113.3 cm)
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Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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Record ID
hmsg_86.5888