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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.386
People
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
  • 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.

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
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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

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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