The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné: Artwork: Play Mountain: [114A]

114A

Play Mountain

1933

Plaster

4 x 26 x 29 in. (10.2 x 66 x 73.7 cm)

Inscribed in pencil on left side of front edge: Isamu Noguchi 1933, and inscribed into plaster on right side of from edge: Isamu Noguchi 1933

Current Collection

The High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Provenance

Milton Hebald, unknown date
Unknown collection, 1995
Christie's New York, auctioned 1 October 2024 (sold)
Current collection, 2024

Published On

October 1 2024

Last Updated On

October 1 2024

Status

published

Related Exhibitions

Related Bibliography

Isamu Noguchi. Exhibition pamphlet. New York: Marie Harriman Gallery, 1935.
Read, Helen Appleton. "Sculpture, Monumental and Otherwise by Lachaise and Noguchi-- Other Shows." Review of exhibition, New Scultpure by Isamu Noguchi at Marie Harriman Gallery, New York. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 10 February 1935.
McBride, Henry. "Attractions in the Galleries." Review of exhibition, New Scultpure by Isamu Noguchi at Marie Harriman Gallery, New York. New York Times, 2 February 1935.
Millier, Arthur. "Review of Art: Famous Sculptor Returns to This City of His Birth: Isamu Noguchi Pauses in His Search for a 'Community' to Model Portraits and Design a Swim Pool." Los Angeles Times, 1 September 1935.
"Sculpture by Noguchi at Harriman Gallery." Review of exhibition, New Scultpure by Isamu Noguchi at Marie Harriman Gallery, New York. New York Post, 2 February 1935.
Luce, H. R. (Ed.). (1946, November 11). Speaking of Pictures: Japanese-American Sculptor Shows Off Weird New Works; Noguchi has Odd Versatility. LIFE, 20, No. 21. 12-13, 15.
Jacobs, Jay. "Projects for Playgrounds; Prophet without Honor." Art in America (November-December 1967).
Noguchi, Isamu. Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World. New York and Evanston, Illinois: Harper & Row, 1968.
Noguchi & Rickey & Smith. Exhibition catalogue. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1970.
Sculptures By Isamu Noguchi. Exhibition catalogue. Tokyo: Minami Gallery, in association with Asahi Shinbun, 1973
Cummings, Paul. "Oral history interview with Isamu Noguchi." November 7-December 26, 1973. Original typescript. Washington DC: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Anderson, Wayne. American Sculpture in Process: 1930-1970. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975.
Hunter, Sam. Isamu Noguchi. New York: Abbeville Press, 1978.
Tefft, Elden, C. Proceedings of the Ninth National/ International Sculpture Conference: March 31-April 3, 1976. Lawrence, Kansas: International Sculpture Center, University of Kansas, 1978.
Cummings, Paul. Artists in Their Own Words. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.
Grove, Nancy. "The Visible and Invisible Noguchi." Artforum 17, no. 7 (March 1979).
Marter, Joan M., Roberta K. Tarbell and Jeffrey Wechsler. Vanguard American Sculpture 1913 - 1939. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University, 1979.
Botnick, Diane and Nancy Grove. The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1980: i-xvii, 1-625
Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980.
Isamu Noguchi: 75th Birthday Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. Pace Gallery and André Emmerich Gallery, 1980.
Wolff, Theodore F. "Sculpture of Spaces." Review of exhibition, Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Latin America Daily Post, 16/17 March 1980: 6.
Tallmer, Jerry. "Playgrounds are no game." Review of exhibition, Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. New York Post, 9 February 1980: 15.
Beardsley, John. Earthworks and Beyond. New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.
Grove, Nancy. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of the Sculpture. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985: i-xx, 1-313.
Yonekura, Mamoru and Kishin Shinoyama."Isamu Noguchi From Scene of Creation." Mizue, Winter 1988, 7-41.
Grove, Nancy. Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture. Exhibition catalogue. Washington DC: National Portrait Gallery, in association with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989: i-xvi, 1-125.
Berman, Avis. Rebels on Eigth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of Art. New York: Atheneum, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990: 11-573
Threlfall, Tim. Isamu Noguchi: Aspects of a Sculptor's Practice. Sussex, United Kingdom: Seagull Books, 1991.
Senie, Harriet. Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation and Controversy. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Ashton, Dore. Noguchi East and West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 1992.
Altshuler, Bruce. Isamu Noguchi. Modern Masters Series, vol. 16. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.
Noguchi, Isamu. Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations, edited by Bruce Altshuler and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, 1994.
Oles, James Douglas. "Walls to Paint On: American Muralists in Mexico, 1933– 1936." PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1995.
Play Mountain: Isamu Noguchi + Louis Kahn. Tokyo: WARTARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, in association with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., 1996.
Watabiki, Kozo. Isamu Noguchi: Landscape. Tokyo: Gyosei Corporation, 1998.
Harris, Elizabeth Forsyth. "Sculptural Theatre: Isamu Noguchi's Sets for Martha Graham." PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 2000.
Goldberg, Deborah A. "Isamu Noguchi: the Artist as Engineer and Visionary Designer, 1918-1939." PhD dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2001.
Torres, Ana Maria. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space. New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc., 2000.
Walther, Ingo F. Art of the Twentieth Century. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2000.
Winther-Tamaki, Bert. "Isamu Noguchi: Places of Affiliation and Disaffiliation" in Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years, 110-172. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001: 110-172.
Treib, Marc. Noguchi in Paris: The UNESCO Garden. San Francisco and Paris: William Stout Publishers, in association with UNESCO Publishing, 2003.
Duus, Masayo. The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders. Translated by Peter Duus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Fletcher, Valerie J., ed. Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor. Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution and Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Scala Publishers, Ltd., 2004.
McGuire, Leslie. "Isamu Noguchi's Playground Designs." Landscape Architect, September 2004: 48-55.
Isamu Noguchi: Connecting the World Through Sculpture. Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art, 2006.
Greene, Alison de Lima. Isamu Noguchi: A Scupture for Sculpture, The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2006.
Isamu Noguchi: Between East and West. Exhibition catalogue. Andros, Greece: Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, in association with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, 2010.
Wolf, Amy. On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922-1960. Exhibition catalogue. Long Island City: Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, 2010.
Sadao, Shoji. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends. New York: Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, 2011.
Lyford, Amy. Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation 1930-1950. Berkeley, Los Angeles and New York: University of California Press, 2013.

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