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- Poster, "Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi," 2006 -
- 2006
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Poster, "Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi," 2006
- Ballet Dancer, Anne Wiman, Atop Chassis Fountain, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940 - During the 1940 New York World's Fair, visitors to the Ford Exposition's newly constructed theatre could enjoy a Technicolor film, an automobile style show, and a humorous performance by the American Ballet Caravan. This photograph shows a scene from "A Thousand Times Neigh," which told the story of the automobile from the viewpoint of a dancing horse named Dobbin.
- June 26, 1940
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Ballet Dancer, Anne Wiman, Atop Chassis Fountain, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940
During the 1940 New York World's Fair, visitors to the Ford Exposition's newly constructed theatre could enjoy a Technicolor film, an automobile style show, and a humorous performance by the American Ballet Caravan. This photograph shows a scene from "A Thousand Times Neigh," which told the story of the automobile from the viewpoint of a dancing horse named Dobbin.
- Chassis Fountain, Ford Exposition Garden Court, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Noguchi used automobile parts to create a fountain that both fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine.
- May 01, 1939
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Chassis Fountain, Ford Exposition Garden Court, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Noguchi used automobile parts to create a fountain that both fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine.
- Chassis Fountain, Ford Exposition Garden Court, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Noguchi used automobile parts to create a fountain that both fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine.
- May 01, 1939
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Chassis Fountain, Ford Exposition Garden Court, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Noguchi used automobile parts to create a fountain that both fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine.
- Detroit Free Press Article, "Park, Fountain To Rise at River," March 16, 1976 -
- March 16, 1976
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Detroit Free Press Article, "Park, Fountain To Rise at River," March 16, 1976
- "Nelson...Eames..Noguchi...Hvidt-Nielsen," Herman Miller Advertisement, October 1951 -
- October 01, 1951
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"Nelson...Eames..Noguchi...Hvidt-Nielsen," Herman Miller Advertisement, October 1951
- The Detroit News Magazine, "Noguchi, He Sculpts the Landscape," April 15, 1979 -
- April 15, 1979
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The Detroit News Magazine, "Noguchi, He Sculpts the Landscape," April 15, 1979
- Isamu Noguchi's Fountain for the Ford Exhibit, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Noguchi used automobile parts to create a fountain that both fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine.
- 1939
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Isamu Noguchi's Fountain for the Ford Exhibit, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Noguchi used automobile parts to create a fountain that both fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine.
- Students from Traphagen School of Fashion Admiring Chassis Fountain at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building. His design featured automobile parts, which fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine. Here, a group of students poses near Noguchi's completed fountain.
- May 17, 1939
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Students from Traphagen School of Fashion Admiring Chassis Fountain at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building. His design featured automobile parts, which fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine. Here, a group of students poses near Noguchi's completed fountain.
- Letter from Isamu Noguchi regarding His Design of a Fountain for Ford Motor Company's World's Fair Exhibit Building, 1938 - Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Noguchi used automobile parts to create a fountain that both fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine.
- November 30, 1938
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Letter from Isamu Noguchi regarding His Design of a Fountain for Ford Motor Company's World's Fair Exhibit Building, 1938
Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired sculptor Isamu Noguchi to design a fountain for its exhibition building in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Noguchi used automobile parts to create a fountain that both fit the fair's "Building the World of Tomorrow" theme and expressed the power of Ford's revolutionary V-8 engine.