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2004 37c Isamu Noguchi: Margaret La Farge Osborn
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U.S. #3858
2004 37¢ Margaret La Farge Osborn
Isamu Noguchi
Issue Date: May 18, 2004
City: Long Island City, NY
Quantity: 57,000,000
Printed By: Ashton-Potter (USA) Ltd
Printing Method: Lithographed
Perforations: Serpentine die cut 10 ½ x 10 ¾
Color: Black
“Everything is sculpture,” stated Isamu Noguchi (1904-88). He believed that sculpture gave shape, order, and meaning to space.
This stamp was one of five issued to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of sculptor Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles in 1904 to an American writer and a Japanese poet. Noguchi split much of his childhood between Japan and the United States, eventually studying briefly at Columbia University before an evening sculpture class redirected his path entirely. He went on to work in Paris under sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and his career came to encompass an unusually wide range of forms, including portrait busts, public plazas, playgrounds, furniture, and stage sets for choreographer Martha Graham.
This particular stamp features Margaret La Farge Osborn, a 1937 portrait bust created during a period when Noguchi supported himself in part by sculpting the heads of wealthy patrons and friends. Working in this more traditional, representational mode gave Noguchi steady income and technical practice early in his career, even as his broader artistic interests were already pulling him toward the more abstract and experimental forms that would come to define his later work. Portraiture like this piece reflected one strand of a career that would eventually stretch across an unusually wide range of media and styles.
Designer Derry Noyes brought together five representative works for this stamp pane, pairing Margaret La Farge Osborn with Noguchi's Akari 25N, Black Sun, Mother and Child, and Figure. The selvage featured a 1952 photograph of Noguchi alongside his own words, "Everything is sculpture." Together, the set offered a survey of an artist whose work ranged from intimate portrait busts like this one to sweeping public installations, tracing the breadth of a career built on constant experimentation across form and material.
U.S. #3858
2004 37¢ Margaret La Farge Osborn
Isamu Noguchi
Issue Date: May 18, 2004
City: Long Island City, NY
Quantity: 57,000,000
Printed By: Ashton-Potter (USA) Ltd
Printing Method: Lithographed
Perforations: Serpentine die cut 10 ½ x 10 ¾
Color: Black
“Everything is sculpture,” stated Isamu Noguchi (1904-88). He believed that sculpture gave shape, order, and meaning to space.
This stamp was one of five issued to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of sculptor Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles in 1904 to an American writer and a Japanese poet. Noguchi split much of his childhood between Japan and the United States, eventually studying briefly at Columbia University before an evening sculpture class redirected his path entirely. He went on to work in Paris under sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and his career came to encompass an unusually wide range of forms, including portrait busts, public plazas, playgrounds, furniture, and stage sets for choreographer Martha Graham.
This particular stamp features Margaret La Farge Osborn, a 1937 portrait bust created during a period when Noguchi supported himself in part by sculpting the heads of wealthy patrons and friends. Working in this more traditional, representational mode gave Noguchi steady income and technical practice early in his career, even as his broader artistic interests were already pulling him toward the more abstract and experimental forms that would come to define his later work. Portraiture like this piece reflected one strand of a career that would eventually stretch across an unusually wide range of media and styles.
Designer Derry Noyes brought together five representative works for this stamp pane, pairing Margaret La Farge Osborn with Noguchi's Akari 25N, Black Sun, Mother and Child, and Figure. The selvage featured a 1952 photograph of Noguchi alongside his own words, "Everything is sculpture." Together, the set offered a survey of an artist whose work ranged from intimate portrait busts like this one to sweeping public installations, tracing the breadth of a career built on constant experimentation across form and material.
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