description | The Manuscript Collection holds more than 18,000 individual documents related to the life and work of Isamu Noguchi and includes personal correspondence, project and exhibition files, patents, fabricator files, and awards, as well as the writings of Isamu Noguchi. With documents dated as early as 1893, the bulk of the materials are from the 1920s through the 1980s. The collection also includes some posthumous files on uncompleted projects. |