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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.378
People
Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA)
Title
Untitled (BMC.125, Squares and Circles)
Other Titles
Former Title: Squares and Circles
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1946-1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225499

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink over graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
44.5 x 57.2 cm (17 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. in black ink: RUTH ASAWA
  • (not assigned): 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
BR49.378
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. 15
  • 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. 129, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • 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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