Ruth Asawa (American, 1926-2013), Untitled (Persimmons), c.1970s-80s.Watercolor on paper, 14 × 17 in.

Ruth Asawa: 'Life's Work' Installation (2018)

Ruth Asawa Flowers XI 1965 lithograph (stone) in brown-red, green and gray on German Etching paper sheet: 28.3 x 28.3 cm (11 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

Ruth Asawa sketchbook drawings (from the book Ruth Asawa Through Line — see more here)

Ruth Asawa, Untitled, (lithograph), Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, 1965, Proof outside the edition of 20 [MoMA, New York, NY. © Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / ARS, New York]

Ruth Asawa in her studio, ca. 1956

Photo: Paul Hassel

Ruth Asawa - Dancers (BMC.107)

watercolor on paper 19.75 x 16 in.

Ruth Asawa. Untitled (WC. 154, Lily Pads), ca. 1960s.

ink + watercolor on coated paper

Ruth Asawa, January 24, 1926 – August 5, 2013.

1957 photo of Asawa and her family by Imogen Cunningham.

Josef Albers’ Color Class, Summer 1944, Gelatin silver photograph by Josef Breitenbach

Josef Albers joined the Weimar Bauhaus as a student and later became a faculty member in 1922. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, he was promoted to professor. After the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi pressure in 1933, Albers emigrated to the United States. He was appointed head of the painting program at the experimental liberal arts institution Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he taught students such as Ruth Asawa and Robert Rauschenberg.

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.843, Mounted Paperfold with Diagonal Black and White Stripes), c. 1952.

Ink on paper

Private collection. Artwork © 2023 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy David Zwirner / The Whitney Museum of American Art

Ruth Asawa, Untitled, from ‘Flowers’, (portfolio of twelve lithographs, including title page and colophon), Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, 1965, Proof outside the edition of 20 [MoMA, New York, NY. © Estate of Ruth Asawa.

Ruth Asawa Through Line at The Menil Collection

Ruth Asawa

Ruth Asawa, Plane Trees II, (lithograph), Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, 1965, Proof outside the edition of 20 [MoMA, New York, NY. © Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / ARS, New York]