38A
Leda
1928
Aluminum bronze, brass
23 3/8 x 11 7/8 x 12 5/8 in. (59.4 x 30.2 x 32.1 cm)
Marble base: 1 1/8 x 15 x 15 in. (2.9 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm)
Not inscribed
First of 2 versions
Current Collection
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
Provenance
Marie Sterner, 1928
Lawrence Rill Schumann, c. 1958
The artist, 1962
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., 1982
Current collection, 2004
Lawrence Rill Schumann, c. 1958
The artist, 1962
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., 1982
Current collection, 2004
Published On
November 17 2011
Last Updated On
February 19 2015
Status
published
All images ©INFGM
Related Exhibitions
- An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by the School of New York , Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, October 17, 1929 - November 1, 1929
- Fifteen Heads by Isamu Noguchi, Marie Sterner Gallery, February 1, 1930 - February 14, 1930
- An Exhibition of Work of 46 Painters and Sculptors under 35 Years of Age, Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 12, 1930 - April 26, 1930
- Fourteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 10, 1946 - December 8, 1946
- Isamu Noguchi, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 17, 1968 - June 16, 1968
- Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, December 9, 1986 - March 2, 1987
- Isamu Noguchi Retrospective 1992 Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, March 13, 1992 - May 10, 1992
- Isamu Noguchi: Early Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 21, 1994 - June 19, 1994
- Sculpture and Nature, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, June 29, 2002 - January 13, 2003
- Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 28, 2004 - May 8, 2005
- Isamu Noguchi: Energy out of Nothingness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, July 2, 2005 - August 28, 2005
- On Becoming An Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries: 1923 - 1960, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, November 17, 2010 - April 24, 2011
Related Bibliography
- An Exhibition of Work of 46 Painters and Sculptors Under 35 Years of Age. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1930.
- Klein, Jerome. "Noguchi's Portrait Heads Appear." Review of exhibition, Fifteen Heads at Marie Sterner Galleries, New York. 1930.
- Klein, Jerome. "Noguchi, Sculptor, Develops Sensation." Review of exhibition, Fifteen Heads at Marie Sterner Gallery, New York. Chicago Evening Post, 11 February 1930.
- "Japanese Artists." Review of exhibition, Fifteen Heads at Marie Sterner Gallery, New York. Chicago Evening Post, 8 April 1930.
- Levy, Julien. "Isamu Noguchi." Creative Art 12, no. 1 (January 1933): Cover, 29-35.
- Miller, Dorothy, ed. Fourteen Americans. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946.
- Gordon, John. Isamu Noguchi. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Admiral Press, 1968.
- Noguchi, Isamu. Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World. New York and Evanston, Illinois: Harper & Row, 1968.
- Hunter, Sam. Isamu Noguchi. New York: Abbeville Press, 1978.
- Marter, Joan M., Roberta K. Tarbell and Jeffrey Wechsler. Vanguard American Sculpture 1913 - 1939. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University, 1979.
- Botnick, Diane and Nancy Grove. The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1980: i-xvii, 1-625
- Development of Sculpture in the Twentieth Century: From Rodin to Christo. Shiga, Japan: The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga. 1984.
- Grove, Nancy. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of the Sculpture. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985: i-xx, 1-313.
- Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1986.
- Isamu Noguchi: Space of Akari and Stone (Seibu Museum of Art exhibition catalogue). Texts by Takahiko Okada, Arata Isozaki and Isamu Noguchi. Tokyo: Takanawa Art Company, 1985.
- Grove, Nancy. Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture. Exhibition catalogue. Washington DC: National Portrait Gallery, in association with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989: i-xvi, 1-125.
- Altshuler, Bruce. Isamu Noguchi. Modern Masters Series, vol. 16. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.
- Light and Shadow: Sculptural Resonance in Space: The Works of Isamu Noguchi from New York and Mure. Sapporo: Sapporo Terebi H, 1998.
- Light and Shadow: Sculptural Resonance in Space: The Works of Isamu Noguchi from New York and Mure. Sapporo: Sapporo Terebi H, 1998.
- Buruma, Ian and Bonnie Rychlak. Noguchi and the Figure. Monterey: El Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterey, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, 1999.
- Harris, Elizabeth Forsyth. "Sculptural Theatre: Isamu Noguchi's Sets for Martha Graham." PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 2000.
- Goldberg, Deborah A. "Isamu Noguchi: the Artist as Engineer and Visionary Designer, 1918-1939." PhD dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2001.
- Eisenbrand, Jochen, Katarina V. Posch, and Alexander Von Vegesack, eds. Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design. Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum, 2002.
- Fletcher, Valerie J., ed. Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor. Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution and Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Scala Publishers, Ltd., 2004.
- Duus, Masayo. The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders. Translated by Peter Duus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
- Lauria, Jo and Tony Birks. Ruth Duckworth Modernist Sculptor. Exhibition catalogue. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Lund Humphries, in association with Art Options Foundation, 2005.
- Isamu Noguchi: Connecting the World Through Sculpture. Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art, 2006.
- Isamu Noguchi: Between East and West. Exhibition catalogue. Andros, Greece: Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, in association with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, 2010.
- Wolf, Amy. On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922-1960. Exhibition catalogue. Long Island City: Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, 2010.
- Sadao, Shoji. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends. New York: Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, 2011.
- "Isamu Noguchi: Archaic / Modern." SAAM 2016 Winter Calendar of Events: 1-2, 5, 10, 16, 18.
Associated Artworks
38B
Leda
1985
Brass
Reproduction