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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.406
People
Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA)
Title
Untitled (BMC.119, Early organic biomorphic forms that resemble Asawa's later looped wire sculptures)
Other Titles
Former Title: Collage
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1946-1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225521

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cut coated papers in brown and white on plywood
Dimensions
71 × 38 cm (27 15/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
framed: 45.7 × 78.7 × 5.7 cm (18 × 31 × 2 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Josef Albers, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1949.

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
BR49.406
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Tamara Schenkenberg, ed., Ruth Asawa: Life's Work, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Yale University Press (St. Louis, New Haven, 2019), pp. 53, 146, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Ruth Asawa: Life's Work, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 09/14/2018 - 02/16/2019

Verification Level

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