[Statue] Isamu Noguchi, of Japanese American heritage, was renowned for creating sculptures that reflected thought and emotion. He often used rough and smooth surfaces in the same work to express his fusion of western and eastern sensibilities.

He created Endless Coupling at his country home in Kamakura, Japan. He had become interested in making multiple reproductions through iron-casting. Inspired by the structure of railroad couplings, Noguchi designed this work in identical interlocking parts that he could add to whenever he wished, suggesting the idea of endlessness.

Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966.

Endless Coupling, 1957, by Isamu Noguchi (1904- 88), cast iron

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