AV_CTE_030A_1991_01

31m 36.0s

Collecting Noguchi’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago - drawings and sculpture, early work. John Becker. Getting to know Noguchi - reintroduction in California with Arshile Gorky and Magouche - seeing Japanese theater. Kuh’s longtime friendship with Noguchi. First National Bank of Chicago - meeting in Japan at Noguchi’s home. Noguchi working in his Takamatsu studio - Noguchi in Japan (B_JOU_1622_1973); Discussions of Noguchi’s religion - not religious but if had to choose would be Shinto - Akari came out of Shinto. Noguchi’s hope of opening a museum - idea of creating his own. Otherwise wanted to combine his work with Louise Nevelson. Dinner at the Long Island City studio. The Cry (496). Disagreement during the Vietnam War - invitation to White House by Lyndon B Johnson - Noguchi staged a protest that Kuh disagreed with. Frida Kahlo - Yoshiko Yamaguchi - Noguchi’s lovers. Noguchi’s travels in Japan, Italy, India. At a party with Joan Mitchell -

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