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May 1 Google Doodle Celebrates Artist Ruth Asawa

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the work of artist and sculptor Ruth Asawa.  The Japanese-American artist, who lived from 1926 – 2013, was best known for her metallic basket designs. 

Ruth Asawa with hanging sculpture, 1952. Photo: Imogen Cunningham; Photo © 2017 Imogen Cunningham Trust Artwork © Estate of Ruth Asawa, Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London.

 Born in Los Angeles, Asawa spent much of high school in Japanese internment camps in California and Arkansas. She studied art at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College under Josef Albers, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, and Franz Kline.

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