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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.417
People
Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA)
Title
Untitled (BMC.118, Gold/brown leaves on brown background)
Other Titles
Former Title: Collage of Fern Leaves
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1946-1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225037

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Collage of leaves and metallic strip on wove paper prepared with glossy opaque brown paint
Technique
Collage
Dimensions
60.4 × 84 cm (23 3/4 × 33 1/16 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
BR49.417
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Black Mountain College student work

Publication History

  • Helen Molesworth and Ruth Erickson, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2015), p. 26, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 10/07/2015 - 01/24/2016

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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