Cronos, 1947, cast 1986

Isamu Noguchi
United States, 1904–1988
Bronze
Purchased with funds provided by James and Ilene Nathan and Nathan and Sandra Seltzer
M.86.146a–f

Listen: Music Selection

Read: Liner Notes

John Cage was an artistic nexus, his spirit spinning out into a web of direct and indirect influence. Those who came in contact with Cage often carried echoes of these encounters into their own work. Isamu Noguchi designed the costumes and scenery for The Seasons, Cage’s first orchestral work and one of countless collaborations with his partner, the choreographer Merce Cunningham. Noguchi’s sculpture Cronos, from the same year, is imbued with a sense of innate motion that easily conjures Cunningham floating aloft Cage’s kinetic music.