Accession Number
1948/1.302

Title
Reclining Male Nude

Artist(s)
Isamu Noguchi

Object Creation Date
1930

Medium & Support
brush and ink over black crayon on off-white laid paper

Dimensions
17 ½ in x 23 ⅛ in (44.45 cm x 58.74 cm);26 1/16 in x 32 1/16 in (66.2 cm x 81.44 cm);17 ½ in x 23 ⅛ in (44.45 cm x 58.74 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Label copy
Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930
May 18, 2013 – September 1, 2013
Isamu Noguchi
United States, 1904–1988
Reclining Male Nude
1930
Ink and black crayon on paper
Museum purchase, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1948/1.302
While most of Noguchi’s drawings from this period were done with crayons and pens, he also tried his hand at using ink and brush, the traditional tools of East Asian painting and calligraphy. Unlike in the later Peking Drawings, here he uses ink and crayon in a traditional Western manner, creating areas of shading that give his figures a sense of three-dimensional volume.

Primary Object Classification
Drawing

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Figures
modern and contemporary art
nudes