61
Marion Greenwood
1929
Iron
16 x 9 x 10 1/8 in. (40.6 x 22.9 x 25.7 cm)
Wood base: 7 7/8 x 8 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (20 x 21.9 x 20.6 cm)
Not inscribed "Portrait in Iron by Noguchi" [sticker under neck]
Current Collection
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
Provenance
Estate of the artist, 1988
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., 1997
Current collection, 2004
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., 1997
Current collection, 2004
Published On
February 12 2013
Status
published
All images ©INFGM
Related Exhibitions
- Fifteen Heads by Isamu Noguchi, Marie Sterner Gallery, February 1, 1930 - February 14, 1930
- Watercolors by a Group of Five and Bronzes by Isamu Noguchi, Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, February 27, 1930 - March 15, 1930
- Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, The Arts Club of Chicago, March 26, 1930 - April 9, 1930
- Drawings and Small Sculptures by Isamu Noguchi, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, October 5 1932 - November 4 1932
- Drawings and Small Sculptures by Isamu Noguchi, Honolulu Museum of Art, January 1, 1933 - January 29, 1933
- Sculpture and Drawings by Isamu Noguchi , Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, June 29, 1933 - July 24, 1933
- Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, April 15, 1989 - August 20, 1989
- Noguchi and the Figure, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, February 12, 1999 - May 10, 1999
- Working Metal 1940-1982, College of Saint Rose, October 21, 2000 - December 3, 2000
- Noguchi: Contours, Paine Webber Art Gallery, April 10, 2003 - June 20, 2003
- Best of Friends: Buckminister Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, May 19, 2006 - October 15, 2006
- The Full Figure and Portraiture, 1926 - 1941, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, February 13, 2008 - February 15, 2009
- 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
- Catalogue of an Exhibition of Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi. Exhibition pamphlet. Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1930.
- Watercolors by a Group of Five. Exhibition pamphlet. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Society of Contemporary Art, 1930.
- Pemberton, Murdock. "The Art Galleries: The Happy Life - Modern and Mexican." Review of exhibition, Fifteen Heads at Marie Sterner Gallery, New York. The New Yorker, 22 February 1930: 65.
- Fifteen Heads. Exhibition pamphlet. New York: Marie Sterner Gallery, 1930.
- "Thirty Water Colors by Quintet Share Hospitality of Harvard Contemporaries with Sculptured Portrait Heads by Isamu Noguchi." Review of exhibition, Watercolors by a Group of Five and Bronzes by Isamu Noguchi at Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Cambridge. Boston Evening Transcript, 1 March 1930.
- Levy, Julien. "Isamu Noguchi." Creative Art 12, no. 1 (January 1933): Cover, 29-35.
- Millier, Arthur. "East-West Races Join to Produce Art Prodigy: Sculptor Noguchi Combines Japanese and American Traits; Textiles, Prints, Portraits and Photos Viewed." Review of exhibition at Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena. Los Angeles TImes, 19 March 1933.
- 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
- 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.
- Ashton, Dore. Noguchi East and West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 1992.
- Oles, James Douglas. "Walls to Paint On: American Muralists in Mexico, 1933– 1936." PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1995.
- Shaw, Sophie ed. The Arts Club of Chicago: The Collection 1916-1996. Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1997.
- 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.
- Schiff, Bennett. "An oasis of art." Smithsonian 31, no. 10 (January, 2001): 74-81, 110.
- Oles, James. "International Themes for a Working Class Market: Noguchi in Mexico City." American Art 15, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 10-33.
- Glueck, Grace. "Modernist in the Making: Noguchi's Many Voices." New York Times, 30 May 2003.
- 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.