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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.407
People
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
  • 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
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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

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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