Ruth Asawa
Desert Star (P.004, Tied wire tree with asymmetrical five pointed star in center branching to an enclosed square)

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

Print studio Tea Lautrec Litho (San Francisco)San Francisco

CultureAmerican

Titles

Desert Star (P.004, Tied wire tree with asymmetrical five pointed star in center branching to an enclosed square)

Date1987

MediumOffset lithograph on coated wove paper, from the edition of 300

DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (19.1 × 19.1 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (21.6 × 21.6 cm)
Frame (inner): 12 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (31.8 × 31.8 cm)
Frame (outer): 13 1/4 × 13 1/4 × 1 5/16 in. (33.7 × 33.7 × 3.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Francis L. Lederer Foundation, courtesy of Sharon Lederer, at Art + Paper 2021

Object number2021.90

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Prints and Drawings

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ProvenanceThe artist, 1987; The Asawa Family Collection, after 1987; [David Zwirner, New York, before 2021]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Exhibition History"Line into Space," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Dec. 11, 2021-July 11, 2022 [Second Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Kinder Building 312: No Catalog]

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed and dated in graphite, below matrix, bottom right corner: ASAWA 5.9.87 ©

Chopmark, within matrix, bottom right corner: [Artist’s own chop of a concentric labyrinth design] (See Fig. 1)

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