biography
pronunciation:
[nogoochee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–88)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Brought up in Japan, he studied medicine at Columbia University, then moved to New York City, where he attended sculpture classes. A Guggenheim fellowship permitted him to study with Brancusi in Paris (1927–9). He returned to New York City and made stylized sculptures, but from 1940 his work moved closer to Surrealism, incorporating the interrelation of bone and stone. From the mid-1940s he became one of the best-known US sculptors, gaining worldwide commissions for large-scale public sculptures, such as the fountain for the Detroit Civic Center Plaza (1975). |
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