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Although Isamu Noguchi created many gardens, only two of these were designed for the display of sculpture. At the Israel Museum in Jerusalem Noguchi built a large garden to present Billy Rose's collection of twentieth-century sculpture, molding the earth to form five curved retaining walls and a dramatic, undulating landscape (1960-65). Next to the museum Noguchi created a separate area for the display of smaller sculpture, using simple geometric walls to establish more intimate spaces. More than ten years later Noguchi used a similar system of concrete walls to structure the space of the Lillie and Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1978-86).
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