BR49.406: Untitled (BMC.119, Early organic biomorphic forms that resemble Asawa's later looped wire sculptures)
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR49.406
- People
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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
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36 × 66.7 cm (14 3/16 × 26 1/4 in.)
plywood: 33 × 66.7 × 0.6 cm (13 × 26 1/4 × 1/4 in.)
mount: 37.9 × 71.3 × 0.2 cm (14 15/16 × 28 1/16 × 1/16 in.)
frame: 46 × 79.1 × 4.8 cm (18 1/8 × 31 1/8 × 1 7/8 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
- Permissions
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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
- Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 04/05/2025 - 09/02/2025
Verification Level
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