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Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles, the son of Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet who was acclaimed in the United States, and Léonie Gilmour, an American writer who edited much of Noguchi's work. Yone had ended his relationship with Gilmour earlier that year and planned to marry The Washington Post reporter Ethel Armes.
She married Japanese American sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, in 1951. [12] Yamaguchi was Japanese, but as someone who had grown up in China, she felt torn between two identities and later wrote that she felt attracted to Noguchi as someone else who was torn between two identities. [13] Li spent between 1953 and 1954 in Vancouver, Canada. They ...
Yone Noguchi. Children. Isamu Noguchi, Ailes Gilmour. Léonie Gilmour (June 17, 1873 – December 31, 1933) was an American educator, editor and journalist. She was the lover and editor of the writer Yone Noguchi and the mother of sculptor Isamu Noguchi and dancer Ailes Gilmour. She is the subject of the feature film Leonie (2010) and the book ...
The Noguchi Museum (chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum) is a museum and sculpture garden at 32-37 Vernon Boulevard in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, designed and created by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988). Opening on a limited basis to the public in 1985, the ...
Depth. 127 cm (50 in) The Noguchi table is a piece of modernist furniture first produced in the mid-20th century. Introduced by Herman Miller in 1947, it was designed in the United States by Japanese American artist and industrial designer Isamu Noguchi. The Noguchi table comprises a wooden base composed of two identical curved wood pieces, and ...
American. Known for. Dance. Movement. Modern Dance. Ailes Gilmour (January 27, 1912 – April 16, 1993) was a Japanese American dancer who was one of the young pioneers of the American Modern Dance movement of the 1930s. She was one of the first members of Martha Graham 's dance company. [1] Gilmour's older half-brother was sculptor Isamu Noguchi .
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) [1] was an American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide. [2] Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and ...
Isamu Noguchi arrived during 1929—Constantin Brâncuși, an old friend of Marie's, [26] had directed him there [23] —and Noguchi and Fuller were soon collaborating on several projects, [25] [27] including the modeling of the Dymaxion car based on recent work by Aurel Persu. [28] It was the beginning of their lifelong friendship.