Join Bridget Hinz to take a closer look at works on paper by artist Ruth Asawa from her years as a student at Black Mountain College. Examine Asawa’s early works and explore how she profoundly understood the lessons of her teacher Josef Albers, but also made work that was decidedly her own. This talk is offered in conjunction with the publication of “Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard,” which takes a fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus. The book is now available through Yale University Press. TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: + Watch more about the Women of the Bauhaus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ndKZUzmHZI + Take a peek of new publication “Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcfW9JG_ss + Exhibition—The Bauhaus and Harvard: http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/bauhaus​. + Student exercises for Josef Albers’s preliminary course, 1928–29. Gelatin silver prints. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Howard Dearstyne, BR50.46, BR50.40. Photo: Howard Dearstyne. https://hvrd.art/o/225099 + Ruth Asawa, “Untitled (BMC.124, Meander black and red),” 1946-1949. Black and red ink with graphite on tracing paper, 43.2 x 55.9 cm (17 x 22 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers, BR49.387. © 2020 Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. https://hvrd.art/o/225464 + Ruth Asawa, "Untitled (BMC.128, Study of triangles)," 1946-1949. Black and purple inks with traces of graphite on tracing paper, 42.6 x 56.5 cm (16 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers, BR49.386. © 2020 Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. https://hvrd.art/o/225501 + Ruth Asawa, “Untitled (BMC.120, Double Sheet stamp on newsprint),” 1946-1949. Black stamped ink on newspaper, 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers, BR49.391. © 2020 Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. https://hvrd.art/o/225466 + Ruth Asawa, “Untitled (BMC.121, Exercise in color vibration and figure background that resembles Asawa's later biomorphic looped sculptural form),” 1948-1949. Collage of cut colored paper on paper prepared with opaque watercolor on orange wove paper, 60.8 x 45.8 cm (23 15/16 x 18 1/16 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers, BR49.407. © 2020 Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. https://hvrd.art/o/225505 + Ruth Asawa, “Untitled (BMC.118, Gold/brown leaves on brown background),” 1946-1949. Collage of leaves and metallic strip on wove paper prepared with glossy opaque brown paint, 60.4 × 84 cm (23 3/4 × 33 1/16 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers, BR49.417. © 2020 Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. https://hvrd.art/o/225037 --- Speaker:  Bridget Hinz, Curatorial assistant for special exhibitions and publications.   This video is part of our  Harvard Art Museums at Home: Art Talks series  in which our team of curators, conservators, fellows, and graduate students will share short, informal videos that offer an up-close look at works from our collections.    --- All works and archival materials by Ruth Asawa, courtesy of the Estate of Ruth Asawa. © 2020 Estate of Ruth Asawa / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Ruth Asawa Forever Stamp, courtesy of the United States Postal Service, issued August 13, 2020. © 2020 U.S. Postal Service. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Video: Bridget Hinz. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu.