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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.387
People
Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA)
Title
Untitled (BMC.124, Meander black and red)
Other Titles
Former Title: Spirals
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1946-1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225464

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and red inks and graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
43.2 x 55.9 cm (17 x 22 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. in black ink: RUTH ASAWA
  • inscription: l.r. in black ink: RUTH ASAWA // BLK. MT. COLLEGE // N.C.
  • label: typed in black and pink ink, removed from backing: Whitney / E.2022.1076 / Ruth Asawa / Untitled (BMC.124, (Meander Black and Red) / Black and red ink with graphite on tracing paper / Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers, BR4 / Ruth Asawa Through Line / Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC: 9/16/23-1/15/24 / The Menil Collection, Houston: 3/22/24-7/21/24

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers
Copyright
© Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy David Zwirner
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
BR49.387
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Tamara Schenkenberg, ed., Ruth Asawa: Life's Work, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Yale University Press (St. Louis, New Haven, 2019), pp. 15, 146, ill. (color)
  • Robert Wiesenberger, "A Key", The Serving Library Annual, Roma Publications and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Amsterdam, 2022), pp. 153-174, pp. 156-157, ill. (color)
  • Kim Conaty and Edouard Kopp, ed., Ruth Asawa: Through Line, exh. cat., The Menil Collection, Menil Drawing Institute and Whitney Museum of American Art (Houston and New York, 2023), p. 150, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Black Mountain, Blum Art Institute, New York, 04/15/1987 - 07/04/1987; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 07/18/1987 - 10/04/1987
  • Ruth Asawa: Life's Work, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 09/14/2018 - 02/16/2019
  • Ruth Asawa Through Line, Whitney Museum of American Art, 09/16/2023 - 01/15/2024; The Menil Collection, Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, 03/22/2024 - 07/21/2024

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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