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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...
...Sculptor Noguchi was born in Los 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...
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...
From then on Sculptor Noguchi piled up an ever-increasing amount of critical praise. He returned to New York, made a series of excellent portrait heads. Crop-headed Lincoln Edward Kirstein, esthetic son of the vice president of Filene's Department Store, introduced him to Harvard University where his exhibition was considered important enough for the Crimson, undergraduate daily, to run a front-page headline: NOGUCHI AT HARVARD. The Arts Club of Chicago took him up. In 1930 he started around the world, saw his family in Tokyo for the first time in years. He showed some Japanese portrait heads...
...NOGUCHI-Gustav Eckstein Harpers...