Word: isamu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every San Franciscan knows the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, an imposing colonnade in Lincoln Park. In it was exposed last week an exhibition of much local importance, the first California showing of a native though wandering son, Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
...Angeles in 1904, son of a Japanese father and a U. S. mother: Leonie Gilmour. He is no relation of famed Microbe Hunter Hideyo Noguchi w:ho died of yellow fever in 1928, but his father. Yone Noguchi, is a poet almost as well known in Japan. Isamu Noguchi was taken to Japan when (wo years old. After a few years of Japanese school he was sent to the Interlaken experimental school in Rolling Prairie, Ind. and subjected to the ideas of Edward Aloysius Rumely, its director. It was here that young Noguchi first decided to be an artist...
Medicine was harder ploughing than he thought. Isamu Noguchi drifted back to sculpture, attending night classes at Manhattan's Leonardo da Vinci Art School, where he was discovered with loud hosannahs by Director Onorio Ruotolo who took him into his home, gave him his own studio to work in. worked over him as hard as any horse trainer with a promising yearling. In 1927 the colt came through with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Isamu Noguchi went to Paris and immediately apprenticed himself as a stone cutter to Constantin Brancusi. one of the few sculptors to have a piece of pastry named...
...much modern stuff is so bitter, so hopeless." explained Isamu Noguchi. "To me, at least. Miss Expanding Universe is full of hope...
...water colors, which are for the most part vivid and bright landscapes, will be supplemented by fifteen bronze heads done by Isamu Noguchi, a Japanese sculptor, who is exhibiting for the first time in Boston...