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Lunar Landscape
Photography by Dwight Primiano

Lunar Landscape

Artist (1904 - 1988)
Date1943
MediumMagnesite cement, electric lights, colored acetate sheets, cork, and string
Dimensions35 x 25 1/4 x 7 in. (88.9 x 64.1 x 17.8 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.101
Signedverso: Isamu 1943
Accession number 2006.101
On View
On view
Provenanceto Alexander Tatti; to Steven Tatti (his son), New York, NY; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2006

Label Text“The memory of Arizona was like that of the moon, a moonscape of the mind.”

––Isamu Noguchi



Isamu Noguchi started creating sculptures with integrated light sources––what he called Lunars––after entering a Japanese American internment camp in Poston, Arizona. In Lunar Landscape, cork spheres on fishing lines are reminiscent of moons hanging over a rounded landscape, while colorful lights glowing from within serve as symbols of hope and freedom.


“El recuerdo de Arizona era como el de la luna, un paisaje lunar de la mente”.

––Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi comenzó a crear esculturas con fuentes de luz integradas, a las que denominó Lunares, tras ingresar en un campo de internamiento japonés estadounidense en Poston, Arizona. En Paisaje lunar, las esferas de corcho suspendidas de hilos de pescar asemejan unas lunas que cuelgan sobre un paisaje redondeado, mientras que las luces de colores que brillan en su interior sirven como símbolos de esperanza y libertad.
Gregory (Effigy)
Isamu Noguchi
1946, cast 1964
Photo credit: Thomas McFetridge | Courtesy of Crystal Bridges and the Momentary
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