- Identification and Creation
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- 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
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- 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.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers
- Copyright
- © Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1949
- Object Number
- BR49.407
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Tiffany Bell and Robert Storr, Ruth Asawa, exh. cat., David Zwirner Books (New York, 2018), pp. 18-19, fig. 9, ill. (color)
- Exhibition History
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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
- Subjects and Contexts
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The Bauhaus
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