Toshiko Takaezu with her works at home in Quakertown, New Jersey, 1997. Photo: Bobby Jae Kim. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Lilane and David M. Stewart Collection, gift of Bobby Jae Kim.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Cranbrook Art Museum is the second stop on the national tour of Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within. Organized by The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, the exhibition at Cranbrook features approximately 115 objects from public and private collections across the country, including Cranbrook’s own collection.
Toshiko Takaezu was a groundbreaking 20th-century abstract artist most celebrated for her prolific output of expressively glazed “closed form” ceramic sculptures that ranged in scale from palm-sized works to immersive sculptural environments…