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2004 37c Isamu Noguchi: Mother and Child
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U.S. #3860
2004 37¢ Mother and Child
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 Mother and Child, an onyx sculpture Noguchi carved between 1944 and 1947, rendering the bond between the two figures through smooth, abstracted forms rather than detailed realism. The piece dates from a difficult period in Noguchi's life, following his voluntary time at the Poston internment camp in Arizona, where he had gone in 1942 hoping to help improve conditions for Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II. Noguchi later reflected on this period through his writing, warning against succumbing to the same racial prejudice that had led to the internment camps in the first place, a conviction that shaped his outlook as he returned to his studio work in the years that followed.
Designer Derry Noyes brought together five representative works for this stamp pane, pairing Mother and Child with Noguchi's Akari 25N, Margaret La Farge Osborn, Black Sun, 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, emotionally resonant pieces like this one to monumental public installations, capturing the full breadth of a career shaped by both personal history and boundless artistic curiosity.
U.S. #3860
2004 37¢ Mother and Child
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 Mother and Child, an onyx sculpture Noguchi carved between 1944 and 1947, rendering the bond between the two figures through smooth, abstracted forms rather than detailed realism. The piece dates from a difficult period in Noguchi's life, following his voluntary time at the Poston internment camp in Arizona, where he had gone in 1942 hoping to help improve conditions for Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II. Noguchi later reflected on this period through his writing, warning against succumbing to the same racial prejudice that had led to the internment camps in the first place, a conviction that shaped his outlook as he returned to his studio work in the years that followed.
Designer Derry Noyes brought together five representative works for this stamp pane, pairing Mother and Child with Noguchi's Akari 25N, Margaret La Farge Osborn, Black Sun, 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, emotionally resonant pieces like this one to monumental public installations, capturing the full breadth of a career shaped by both personal history and boundless artistic curiosity.
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