The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Black Moon
1990s
(American, 1922–2011)
Diameter: 57.8 cm (22 3/4 in.); Overall: 52.1 cm (20 1/2 in.)
Gift of the Artist 2005.191
Location: On view at Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Sep 8, 2025 - Dec 23, 2025
Description
Shortly after studying in Japan, and while teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art in the 1950s, Takaezu launched her signature series of closed vessels applied with painterly glazes. Constituting her primary output for nearly a half century, these works reveal her combined interests in Western and Eastern philosophies and aesthetics.- Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within. The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, NY (organizer) (March 20-July 28, 2024) https://www.noguchi.org/museum/exhibitions/view/toshiko-takaezu/; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (September 7, 2024-January 12, 2025); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (February 23-May 18, 2025); Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI (September 8-December 23, 2025).Toshiko Takaezu. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20, 2009-May 15, 2010).The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/20/2009 - 05/15/2010); "Toshiko Takaezu"
- {{cite web|title=Black Moon |url=false|author=Toshiko Takaezu|year=1990s|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.191