Ruth Asawa
Desert Flower (TAM.1469, Black Reverse)

Desert Flower (TAM.1469, Black Reverse)

© Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Desert Flower (TAM.1469, Black Reverse)
Desert Flower (TAM.1469, Black Reverse)
ArtistAmerican, 1926–2013
PrinterAmerican, born 1941
Print studioLos Angeles
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Desert Flower (TAM.1469, Black Reverse)
Date1965
MediumTransfer lithograph on wove paper, state I/III, edition 7/20
DimensionsImage: 14 × 14 in. (35.5 × 35.5 cm)
 Sheet: 20 1/8 × 20 1/8 in. (51.1 × 51.1 cm)
 Frame (inner): 24 3/16 × 24 3/16 in. (61.4 × 61.4 cm)
 Frame (outer): 25 3/16 × 25 3/16 × 1 7/16 in. (63.9 × 63.9 × 3.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mrs. Linda Freiberg and Dr. H. Jerome Freiberg at Art + Paper 2021
Object number2021.89
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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist and Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1965; The Asawa Family Collection, after 1965; [David Zwirner, New York, before 2021]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Exhibition History"Celebrating Tamarind Institute at 62," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Jan. 8, 2022-Jan. 29, 2023 [Third Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed and numbered in graphite, below matrix, bottom right: 7/20 ASAWA
Recto: Two chopmarks, below matrix, bottom left: Tamarind's and Robert Evermon's (See Fig. 1)
Catalogue raisonnéTamarind 1469

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