Life's Day or Three Times Across the River: Noon (The Wedding Party)

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Object Label
Although perhaps best known as a sculptor, Isamu Noguchi was also a prolific designer of furniture and lighting. The table exhibited here has become an icon of American mid-twentieth-century biomorphic design, characterized by rounded forms that evoke the natural world rather than by the hard edges of much modern design. Composed of only two mirror-image pieces of ebonized wood that swivel on a metal dowel and an elegantly shaped elliptical glass top, the table is a minimal creation whose design has proven so enduring that it is now back in production after being discontinued in 1973.
Caption
Albert Fitch Bellows American, 1829–1883. Life's Day or Three Times Across the River: Noon (The Wedding Party), 1861. Oil on canvas, 29 x 47 in. (73.7 x 119.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2000.8. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2000.8_SL3.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Life's Day or Three Times Across the River: Noon (The Wedding Party)
Date
1861
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
29 x 47 in. (73.7 x 119.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "A.F. Bellows. 1861"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
2000.8
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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