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

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Artist Ruth Asawa(American, 1926–2013)American, 1926–2013

PrinterPrinted by Robert Evermon(American, born 1941)American, born 1941

Print studio Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.(Los Angeles)Los 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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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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