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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.416
People
Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA)
Title
Untitled (BMC.126, Study in Primary Colors)
Other Titles
Former Title: Study in Primary Colors
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1946-1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225036

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Collage of cut colored papers mounted to three colored papers
Technique
Collage
Dimensions
29.4 × 34.3 cm (11 9/16 × 13 1/2 in.)

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
BR49.416
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John David Farmer and Geraldine Weiss, ed., Concepts of the Bauhaus: The Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection, exh. cat. (1971), cat. no. 17
  • 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. 71, 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 Through Line, The Menil Collection, Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, 03/22/2024 - 07/21/2024

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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