Isamu Noguchi
b. 1904, Los Angeles, CA | d. 1988
Akari E, 1954
Mulberry bark paper, bamboo, iron, steel

Isamu Noguchi with Ikeda Masuo in the garden at the Vernon Blvd. warehouse in Long Island City, 1977Pigment printCourtesy Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden MuseumAfter purchasing a photo printing plant in Long Island City in 1974 across from his artist studio, Isamu Noguchi transformed the site to become The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, the first monographic museum established by a living artist in America.

Prior, in 1942, Noguchi voluntarily entered “internment” at the Poston War Relocation Center, a concentration camp in Arizona, joining Japanese citizens and American citizens of Japanese heritage living in the Western United States forcibly incarcerated during World War II, as authorized by Executive Order 9066.