Harvard Art Museums > BR49.387: Untitled (BMC.124, Meander black and red) Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Untitled (BMC.124, Meander black and red) (Ruth Asawa) , BR49.387,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 28, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/225464. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number BR49.387 People Ruth Asawa, American (Norwalk, California, USA 1926 - 2013 San Francisco, CA) Title Untitled (BMC.124, Meander black and red) Other Titles Former Title: Spirals Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1946-1949 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/225464 Physical Descriptions Medium Black and red inks and graphite on tracing paper Dimensions 43.2 x 55.9 cm (17 x 22 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.r. in black ink: RUTH ASAWA inscription: l.r. in black ink: RUTH ASAWA // BLK. MT. COLLEGE // N.C. 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 BR49.387 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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. 15, 146, ill. (color) Robert Wiesenberger, "A Key", The Serving Library Annual, Roma Publications and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Amsterdam, 2022), pp. 153-174, pp. 156-157, 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. 150, ill. (color) Exhibition History 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 Ruth Asawa: Life's Work, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 09/14/2018 - 02/16/2019 Ruth Asawa Through Line, Whitney Museum of American Art, 09/16/2023 - 01/15/2024; The Menil Collection, Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, 03/22/2024 - 07/21/2024 Subjects and Contexts The Bauhaus Related Articles Art Talk: Ruth Asawa’s Student Exercises from Black Mountain College December 9, 2020 Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
