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| "One day... I had a vision: I saw the Earth as sculpture." - Isamu Noguchi |
We are creating a list of all known sites in North America where Isamu Noguchi created an installation (either art or playground sculptures). The list is far from complete. We are currently listing 13 sites but more will be added in the future. Everyone knows the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York so we have not included it for obvious reasons.
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| Map of Isamu Noguchi installations in North America, click to enlarge. |
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| 1. "The Family," Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., Bloomfield, CT, 1956 © Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. & The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 2. "Sunken Garde for Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library" Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1963 © Yale & The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 3. "Momo Taro" Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, 1977-78 © Shigeo Anzai and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 4. "Gardens for IBM Headquarters" Armonk, New York, 1964 © IBM, Remiss63 and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 5. "Horace E. Dodge Fountain" for the A. Hart Plaza, water sculpture fountain, Detroit, Michigan, 1978 © City of Detroit and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 6. "Red Cube" for Marine Midland, now HSBC, New York, New York, 1968 © HSBC, Francis Dzikowski and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 7. "Playscapes" playground sculptures for Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia, 1975 © City of Atlanta and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 8. "Playscapes" playground sculpture for Bayfront Park and Challenger Monument, Miami, Florida, 1979-93 © City of Miami, Phillip Pessar and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 9. "Lillie and Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden" Houston, Texas, 1978-86 © Rickshaw and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 10. "Sculpture Garden" for First National City Bank Building, Forth Worth, Texas, 1960-61. Unknown status, since Noguchi's work was placed there, the building tenants have changed at least three times, and currently it is being rented out to Bank of America. Anyone in Fort Worth who knows what happened to these? There are some additional Noguchi sculptures in Burnett Plaza, right across the street. © Rickshaw and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 11. "California Scenario Sculpture Garden" Costa Mesa, California, 1980-82 © City of Costa Mesa and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 12.a. "Plaza for the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center Plaza" Los Angeles, California, 1980-83 © Jolene from 365 Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 12.b. Detail of "Plaza for the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center Plaza" Los Angeles, California, 1980-83 © Jolene from 365 Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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| 13. "Abelardo L. Rodriguez Mercado Mural" Mexico City, Mexico, 1936 © Patricia Ruvalcaba, City of Mexico City and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. |
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