Here is a new and useful tool for those interested in the work of American artist/designer/sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, a project undertaken by the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in seeking to documenting the practice of the artist, is now available for free in its digital version. It contains the artworks, exhibitions, and bibliography entries, and much more information, all categorized as research pending provide partial information on a given record for which research is currently ongoing or outstanding. A great opportunity to look at the unique tables that Noguchi designed throughout his career, outsider of the commercial venturs that he created.
Table for Mosaic by Jeanne Reynal 1942 Magnesite, paint, mosaic tiles, Collaboration with Jeanne Reynal Sills Collection The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
Table for Philip Goodwin, 1940 – 1941, Laminated primavera wood, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Table for A. Conger Goodyear, 1939, private Collection
Table for Samuel Dretzin, 1948, York fossil marble, Private Collection
Lunar Table, 1961 – 1965, Granite, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
Wave in Space #1, 1972, Swedish granite, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Mirage, c. 1968, Swedish granite, Japanese pine base, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York