Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

Gerald Nordland, Curator

1973 First Edition, San Francisco Museum of Art

Slim quarto.  Thick printed wrappers protected in a clear plastic envelope.

28 pp. 26 black and white images. Wrappers bright and clean with slight edge wear. A near fine copy of a scarce catalog. 10 x 10 softcover exhibition catalog organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art, June 29 - August 19, 1973 that then travelled to the California Institute of Technology, October 5 - November 12, 1973.

“I was interested in it because of the economy of a line, making something in space, enclosing it without blocking it out. It’s still transparent. I realized that if I was going to make these forms, which interlock and interweave, it can only be done with a line because a line can go anywhere.” — Ruth Asawa