# @newarkmuseumart on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-05-12T19:02:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Newark Museum of Art (@newarkmuseumart) — https://gondola.cc/newarkmuseumart

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Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a Japanese American artist who is best known for his abstract sculptures. 🗿

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent backlash against Japanese Americans motivated Noguchi to cofound the Nisei Writers and Artists Mobilization for Democracy, a group dedicated to raising awareness of the patriotism of Japanese Americans✊🏽. He then voluntarily spent six months at the Colorado River Relocation Center (Poston) internment camp for Japanese Americans in Arizona. 

Following his release from Poston, Noguchi began a new series of delicate interlocking marble and slate sculptures. Of the material he wrote: “Unlike working with wood or metals, there could be no temptation to weld or glue. The very limitations of the medium imposed a kind of honesty; to find the minimum means for construction and expression rather than the myriad possibilities that metal welding involved.” ✍️

Isamu Noguchi, Untitled, ca. 1945 
Slate,19 1/4 x 11 x 6 in.  
Purchase 2010 Helen McMahon Brady Cutting Fund  2010.10

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