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1904-31 | 1932-49 | 1950-61 | 1962-88
This chronology appears in Bruce Altshuler, Isamu Noguchi
(New York: Abbeville Press, 1994), pp.113-116 |
| 1962 |
Works at the American Academy in Rome on balsa wood and clay sculptures to be cast in bronze. Begins working in marble quarries of the firm of Henraux in Querceta, Italy. Will return to work in Italy each year for a decade. Designs set for Martha Graham's Phaedra.
Photo: Noguchi working in Italy |
| 1964 |
Creates gardens for the IBM Headquarters, Armonk, New York. Designs memorial for John Fitzgerald Kennedy (unrealized). Included in Documenta III, Kassel, West Germany.
Photos: IBM garden 1, IBM garden 2 |
| 1965 |
Begins work on first realized playground, at Kodomo No Kuni (Children's Land), near Tokyo, Japan, with Yoshio Otani (completed 1966). |
| 1966 |
Creates last set design, for Martha Graham's Cortege of Eagles. Creates large painted steel sculpture for installation outside the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In Italy at Henraux quarries makes large works of rough marble. Establishes the Akari Foundation, New York, to support artistic exchange between the United States and Japan. Begins working on the island of Shikoku with Masatoshi Izumi on Black Sun for the Seattle Art Museum, initiating their collaboration.
Photos: Sculpture for National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Black Sun |
| 1968 |
April -- retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Publishes autobiography, A Sculptor's World. Submits design for United States Pavilion, Expo 70, Osaka, Japan (unrealized). Creates Red Cube for 140 Broadway, New York; and Octetra play sculpture for Spoleto, Italy. Begins series of stone table sculptures, and series of marble post-tension sculptures.
Photos: Red Cube, Octetra, U.S. Pavilion |
| 1969 |
Creates Skyviewing Sculpture for Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington. Establishes studio in village of Mure on island of Shikoku, Japan, in collaboration with Masatoshi Izumi, and completes first of ongoing series of large scale basalt sculptures there. Black Sun installed in Seattle.
Photos: Sikoku studio, Skyviewing Sculpture |
| 1970 |
Begins series of void sculptures. Realizes nine fountains for Expo 70, Osaka, Japan.
Photo: Expo '70 Fountains |
| 1972 |
Begins work on Dodge Fountain and Philip A. Hart Plaza, Detroit, Michigan, with Shoji Sadao (completed 1979). Creates sculptures for Bayerische Vereins Bank, Munich, Germany.
Photo: Dodge Fountain |
| 1974 |
Begins work on Shinto, Bank of Tokyo Building, New York (completed 1975, destroyed 1980); and Intetra, Mist Fountain, for Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida (completed 1975). Void installed at Pepsico, Purchase, New York. May -- acquires building across the street from his Long Island City studio and begins renovating it for display and storage of his sculpture.
Photo: Intetra Mist Fountain |
| 1975 |
Creates Landscape of Time, Jackson Federal Building, Seattle, Washington. Begins Playscapes playground, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia (completed 1976).
Photos: Landscape of Time, Playscapes |
| 1976 |
Creates Portal, Cuyahoga Justice Center, Cleveland, Ohio, and begins Sky Gate, Honolulu, Hawaii. Begins fountain for the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (completed 1977). Designs 150-foot Friendship Fountain for Missouri River between Nebraska and Iowa, with Shoji Sadao (unrealized). Designs Martha Graham Dance Theater, New York, with Shoji Sadao (unrealized).
Photos: Portal, Sky Gate |
| 1977 |
Begins Momo Taro for Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, and Tengoku for Sogetsu Flower Arranging School, Tokyo, Japan (both completed 1978). Designs landscape for Sacred Rocks of Kukaniloko, Honolulu, Hawaii (unrealized).
Photos: Momo Taro, Tengoku |
| 1978 |
Begins Lillie and Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, with Shoji Sadao (completed 1986). Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Isamu Noguchi by Sam Hunter published, first monograph on the artist. |
| 1979 |
Designs Piazza, Finanziaria Fiere di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Begins design of Bayfront Park, Miami, with Shoji Sadao (construction continues, 1993).
Photo: Bayfront Park |
| 1980 |
Installs Passage of Seasons at the Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, and Unidentified Object at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Begins Constellation (For Louis Kahn) for the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (completed 1983). Begins redesign of Bolt of Lightening...Memorial to Ben Franklin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (installed 1984). Begins California Scenario, Two Town Center, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California (completed 1982); and To the Issei and Japanese-American Cultural and Community Center Plaza, Los Angeles, California (completed 1983), both with Shoji Sadao. Exhibition, The Sculpture of Spaces, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The Akari Foundation becomes the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, with the intention of establishing a museum of Noguchi's work in Long Island City.
Photos: Constellation (For Louis Kahn), Bolt of Lighting, California Scenario, To the Issei |
| 1981 |
Purchases land next to Long Island City building, and begins design and construction of the Noguchi Museum, with Shoji Sadao. |
| 1983 |
April -- opens by appointment the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York. Begins construction of garden at studio in Mure, Shikoku, Japan, with Masatoshi Izumi. |
| 1984 |
Completes water garden for Domon Ken Museum, Sakata, Japan. Eightieth birthday celebration at Sogetsu Flower Arranging School, Tokyo, Japan.
Photo: Domon Ken Museum Garden |
| 1985 |
May -- official opening of Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York. |
| 1986 |
June -- represents the United States at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. November -- receives Kyoto Prize from Inomori Foundation, Japan. Creates Tsukubai fountain for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| 1987 |
June -- receives National Medal of Arts in Washington, D.C. |
| 1988 |
Creates master plan of 400-acre park for Sapporo, Japan (under construction), and designs large sculpture for Takamatsu Airport, Shikoku, Japan (completed 1991). July -- awarded Third Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese government. December -- receives Award for Distinction in Sculpture from the Sculpture Center, New York. December 30 -- dies in New York. |
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