Noguchi farmhouse

"We took a small two-hundred year old farmhouse belonging to the famous old potter Rosanjin Kitaoji who was kind enough to let us use it in any way we chose. This was particularly fortunate for me since I was also permitted to use his kilns...I had a local carpenter, the most excellent Nitta san, construct a working place, using the common Japanese method of wood and mud and paper construction according to my design...There are many other embellishments..."
In 1952, Isamu Noguchi was working on projects in Japan, including a series of bridges in Hiroshima.

ISAMU NOGUCHI: PROJECTS IN JAPAN from Arts and Architecture, October 1952

Thanks S.Hughes!

Art Education 21

Gallery of Toys in the Children's Creative Center, United States Pavilion, Brussels World's Fair, Presented by the Museum of Modern Art, NY: Design Color Window, designed by Victor D'Amico / Magnetic Board, designed by Leonard Nelson / String Picture Makers, designed by Victor D'Amico (see also!) / Giant Builder, designed by A.F. Arnold / Three-Dimensional String Design, designed by Victor D'Amico / Color Players, designed by Victor D'Amico

from Experiments in Creative Art Teaching: A Progress Report on the Department of Education at the Museum of Modern Art, NY by Victor D'Amico, 1960

also D'Amico at Daddytypes here

...to be continued

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Balla tools

"Brushes carved by Balla. The horse-hair and pig bristles were supplied by people with whom Balla had made friends while on painting excursions in the Roman countryside. / Balla liked to construct his own tools, which he then used in making sculpture, furniture, picture frames, and stretchers. / A paint box built by Balla."

Giacomo Balla: An Album of his Life and Work by Virginia Dortch Dorazio, Wittenborn & Co., NY, 1969

thanks Hughes!

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Offices of British Olivetti Ltd., London, Misha Black & John Diamond designers
from Form Space and Vision: Discovering Design Through Drawing by Graham Collier, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1963,1967 (Thanks S.H.)

Conventions for Abstract Thoughts

Portrait of Charles Burchfield, date unknown / 1917 Conventions for Abstract Thoughts, handmade album of drawings created ca. 1955 / The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal AND Aimless Abstraction (Hypnotic Intensity) from Conventions for Abstract Thoughts, china marker on paper, 1917 / The Insect Chorus, watercolour with ink, graphite, and crayon on paper, 1917 / exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Modern Art, 1930 / The Night Wind, watercolour, gouache, and pencil on paper, 1918 / handmade album of studies for Sun and Rocks, after 1950 / Midsummer in the Woods, watercolour, charcoal , and chalk on joined paper, 1950-59

from Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, curated by Robert Gober, Hammer Museum/DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2009 (here)

Thanks to S.Hughes for the loan/education.

Geranium Fingernails

Green Fun: Instant Toys, Tricks, and Amusements Anyone Can Make from Common Weeds, Seeds, Leaves and Flowering Things by Maryanne Gjersvik, The Chatham Press, 1972
Special thanks to Alex Tyson from Data Garden for sending me these scans. Data Garden is a primitive electronic arts blog and record label---Please visit!

Franz Erhard Walther

1962-1963

Franz Erhard Walther: Werkmonographie, Herausgegeben von Götz Adriani, DuMont Kunst/Praxis, Cologne, 1972

Impasse Ronsin

exterior of Brancusi's studio, 11 Impasse Ronsin, 1956
from Brancusi, Hulten, Dumitresco, & Istrati, Harry Abrams, NY, 1987

école de tueurs

Untitled, granite, 1935 / Untitled, granite, 1935 / Tête d'oiseau mordant une pierre, granite, 1935 / Jeu de constructions anthropomorphes, plaster, sculpture fragments, objects, 1935 / "garage à sculptures" Great River, Long Island, 1944 / Dream Rose, plaster, 1959 / Corps enseignant pour une école de tueurs (detail), stone (roche due de Vilhonneur), 1967 / Le Musée de l'homme, stone and plaster, 1965 / Max Ernst in studio (Gilles Chauvelin), 1965

from Max Ernst: sculptures, maisons, paysages by Werner Spies, Dumont/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998 (french language)

(Thanks to S. Hughes!)

previously