BR49.386: Untitled (BMC.128, Study of triangles)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR49.386
- People
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Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA)
- Title
- Untitled (BMC.128, Study of triangles)
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Untitled [study of triangles]
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1946-1949
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/225501
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black and purple inks over graphite on tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 42.6 x 56.5 cm (16 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in black on recto, l.r.: RUTH ASAWA // BLK. MT. COL. // N.C"
- inscription: l.r. in black ink: RUTH ASAWA // BLK. MT. COL // N.C.
- (not assigned):
- label: removed from backing: Whitney / E.2022.1050 / Ruth Asawa / Untitled (BMC.128, Study in Repeated Vertical Angular Lines (Triangles)) / Black and purple inks with traces of 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
- BR49.386
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Tiffany Bell and Robert Storr, Ruth Asawa, exh. cat., David Zwirner Books (New York, 2018), pp. 18-19, fig. 8, 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. 123, 128, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/2009 - 01/10/2010
- American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013
- The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019
- 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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