Art Institute of Chicago
Miss Expanding Universe
Isamu Noguchi · 1932
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; Ruth Page, Chicago, Illinois [Martin 1977]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago Historical Society, Ruth Page: A Moment in Modernism, June 15, 1991– Jan. 6, 1992 no cat.
- Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer", Apr. 10–Aug. 2, 2026, cat. 58; Salem, Peabody Essex Museum, Sept. 19, 2026–Jan. 3, 2027; Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Feb. 13–June 6, 2027. (Atlanta and Salem only), as Miss Expanding Universe, 1932, cast 1948.
Literature
Published references
- H. R. Luce, ed., "Speaking of Pictures: Japanese-American Sculptor Shows Off Weird New Works Noguchi has Odd Versatility" LIFE, 20, No. 21. (Nov. 11, 1946), 12-13, 15.
- Oliver W. Larkin, Art and Life in America, (New York: Rinehart), 1949.
- Henry A. La Farge, "Ruisdael to Pissarro to Noguchi." ARTnews 49, no. 1 (March 1950): 32 (ill), 59.
- Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World (New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1968), p. 21.
- Martin Friedman, Noguchi’s Imaginary Landscapes: An Exhibition Organized by Walker Art Center, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1978), pp. 48, 88.
- Sam Hunter, Isamu Noguchi (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), p. 46.
- Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1980), cat. 95.
- Richard Guy Wilson: The Machine Age in America: 1918-1941, exh. cat. (New York: Brooklyn Museum/Harry N. Abrams, 1986), pp. 264-265).
- Bruce Altschuler, Isamu Noguchi (New York and London: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1994), p. 23.
- John Martin, Ruth Page: An Intimate Biography (New York: Dekker, 1977), p. 81.
- Jane Dini, ed., et al., Dance: American Art, 1830-1960 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2016), p. 280.
- Dakin Hart, Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern, exh. cat. (Washington, DC, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2016), pp. 28–29.
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