Talk:Ruth Asawa

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Bibliography

Cunningham, Imogen (1970): Photographs. University of Washington Press.

1973 Woodridge, Sally (1973) Ruth Asawa’s San Francisco Fountain.

Jepson, Andrea and Sharon Litzky (1973, 1976) The Alvarado Experience.

1975 Fisch, Arline M. (1975) Textile Techniques in Metal. Van Norstrand Reinhold, NY

1980 The Arts and Community Oral History Project, “Ruth Asawa, Art, Competence and Citywide Cooperation for San Francisco”, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

1982 50 West Coast Artists, Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston

1987 The Arts at Black Mountain College, Mary Emma Harris, MIT Press

1992 American Women Sculptors, Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston Gifted Woman, Howard Schatz, Pacific Photographic Press, San Francisco

1994 Worlds in Collision: Dialogues on Multicultural Art Issues, Carlos Villa, Project Director, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1996 The New Older Woman, Downes, Tuttle, Faul & Mudd, Celestial Arts, Berkeley ART PICTORIAL, Asahi Art Communications Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

1999 On Women Turning 70: Honoring the Voices of Wisdom, Cathleen Rountree, Jossey Bass, San Francisco

2000 Couples, Mariana Cook, Chronicle Books, San Francisco

2001 Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium, Thomas Zung, Editor, St. Martin’s Press, NY

http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Grid.aspx?searchtype=BOOKS&artist=87903 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.150.10.200 (talk) 23:11, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photo on the page

Hi all, I just added a photo of The San Francisco Fountain, a piece by Asawa. I'm fairly new to posting photos, so I wasn't sure how to link it to her site. I found the information at http://www.ruthasawa.com/visit.html. Matthew (wmf) (talk) 23:56, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Birthday – January 27 vs. January 24

Asawa's birthday is in dispute. This article (and a general Google search) indicates that her birthday is January 24. However, an anon changed her birthday to January 27 per a page behind a paywall. Does anyone have any insight on this matter?--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 02:43, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am skeptical of information behind paywalls and generally do not think they should be usedPurplethree (talk) 00:27, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The website is not behind a paywall, I am able to sign in (without payment) and see the webpage link. They are citing the birth certificate from the State of California, vital statistics with a late issue date from 1968. Jooojay (talk) 06:30, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if one performs a search at Google Books, one can find a number of books that state that her birthday is January 27th . . . in addition to others that state that her birthday is January 24th. This being the case, I would lean towards relying on the date supported by a birth certificate. — Myasuda (talk) 12:43, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was trying to find any Wikipedia policy on this scenario and not doing a great job at it. Has anyone found anything? Logically I would imagine the oldest document - such as a 1968 issued birth certificate may be the preferred evidence (which would be DOB:January 27) but I would be curious what WP policy says. Jooojay (talk) 20:23, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think a birth certificate would be the ultimate source, but we can double check and ask with the reference desk and reliable sources noticeboard. Have you found one? I know a number are now available online. Also if you see a death certificate, please share that too. There is some question about that as well as you wrote below. Thank you for checking on this Bkbray (talk) 19:35, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Date of death – August 6 vs. August 5

The SFGate article states the date of death was August 5th in the evening,^[1] but the New York Times article stated August 6th.^[2] Does anyone know how to resolve this? Jooojay (talk) 06:08, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

see above Bkbray (talk) 19:35, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Ruth Asawa dead at age 87 - SFGate". web.archive.org. 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
^ Martin, Douglas (2013-08-17). "Ruth Asawa, an Artist Who Wove Wire, Dies at 87 (Published 2013)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-26.

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[1] "Ruth Asawa dead at age 87 - SFGate". web.archive.org. 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2020-12-26.

[2] Martin, Douglas (2013-08-17). "Ruth Asawa, an Artist Who Wove Wire, Dies at 87 (Published 2013)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-26.

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