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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.385
People
Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA)
Title
Untitled (BMC.123, Studies of hands and feet)
Other Titles
Former Title: Studies of Hands and Feet
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1946-1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225463

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on tracing paper
Dimensions
48.3 x 61 cm (19 x 24 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. in black ink: RUTH ASAWA
  • inscription: l.r. in black ink: RUTH ASAWA // BLACK MT COLLEGE // N.C.

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
BR49.385
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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)
  • 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), pp. 12, 74, 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
  • Ruth Asawa Through Line, Whitney Museum of American Art, 09/16/2023 - 01/15/2024

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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