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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.408
People
Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA)
Title
Untitled (BMC.127, Meander in green, orange, and brown)
Other Titles
Former Title: Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1946-1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225578

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Collage of cut and printed colored papers mounted to brown coated paper
Technique
Collage
Dimensions
43.5 x 57 cm (17 1/8 x 22 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: removed from backing board: E.2022.1149 / Ruth Asawa / Untitled (BMC.127, Meander in Green, Orange, and Brown) / Collaged colored papers / Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef ALbers, BR49.408 / 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
BR49.408
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Zoe Ryan, ed., In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2019), pp. 47, 181, 226, cat. no. 67, 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), p. 72, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 09/05/2019 - 01/12/2020
  • Ruth Asawa Through Line, Whitney Museum of American Art, 09/16/2023 - 01/15/2024

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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