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Ruth Lanier Asawa

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Ruth Lanier Asawa (1926 - 2013) was active/lived in California, North Carolina.  Ruth Asawa is known for Woven wire sculpture-fountains, figure drawing, graphics.

Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist.

Ruth Asawa, an Artist Who Wove Wire, Dies at 87

By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: August 17, 2013

Her daughter Aiko Cuneo confirmed the death.

Ms. Asawa had been shunted from one detention camp to another as a child before blossoming under the tutelage of the artists Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, Franz Kline and Josef Albers. Gaining notice in the art world while still a student, she soon began building a wider following with abstract wire sculptures that expressed both the craftsmanship she had learned from Mexican basket makers as well as her ambition to extend line drawings into a third dimension. Many of these were hanging mobiles.

In 1968 she startled her admirers by creating her first representational work, a fountain in Ghirardelli Square on San Francisco's waterfront. It had two mermaids — one nursing a "merbaby" — frogs, turtles, splashing water and a recording of frogs croaking.[Displaying 1000 of 15031 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Ruth Lanier Asawa

   Publications  Book References:  25
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Ruth Lanier Asawa
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions October 2003 Editor, Art in America Yes
25 Book References for Ruth Lanier Asawa
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 360 Yes
2015 St. Gaudens, Maurine (Editor) Emerging from the Shadows: Volume One (A-D) A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960 0 Yes
2008 edited by Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson, and Paul Karlstrom (Stanford University Press) Asian American Art: A History 1850-1970 576 Yes
2006 Cornell, Daniell, Editor The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air 0 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1992 Brown, Michael D Views from Asian California: An Illustrated History 1920-1965 71 Yes
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Moore, Sylvia (editor) Yesterday and Tomorow California Women Artists 378 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration) Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California 128 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 San Francisco Mus Modern Art Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era 272 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
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