BR49.407: Untitled (BMC.121, Exercise in color vibration and figure background that resembles Asawa's later biomorphic looped sculptural form)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR49.407
- People
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Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA)
- Title
- Untitled (BMC.121, Exercise in color vibration and figure background that resembles Asawa's later biomorphic looped sculptural form)
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Untitled [Exercise in color vibration and proportion]
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1948-1949
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/225505
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Collage of cut colored paper on paper prepared with opaque watercolor on orange wove paper
- Technique
- Collage
- Dimensions
- 60.8 x 45.8 cm (23 15/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: label taken off backing board: E.2022.1150 / Ruth Asawa / Untitled(BMC.121, Exercise in Color Vibration and Figure Background that Resembles Asawa's later biomorphic looped sculptural form) / Collaged colored paper on papers / Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers, BR49.407 / Ruth Asawa Through Line / Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC: 9/16/23 - 1/15/24
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
- BR49.407
- 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. 9, 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. 72-73, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- Black Mountain, Blum Art Institute, New York, 04/15/1987 - 07/04/1987; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 07/18/1987 - 10/04/1987
- Dance/Draw, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 10/07/2011 - 01/16/2012
- 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
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
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