Life mask of Joan Pearson Watkins
Ruth Asawa
(American, 1926–2013)
1970
Object PlaceTK
Medium/TechniquePlaster
DimensionsOverall: 20.3 × 12.1 × 7.6 cm (8 × 4 3/4 × 3 in.)
Credit LineGift of The Revocable Trust of Joan Pearson Watkins
Accession number2018.3103
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
Provenance1970, gift of the artist to Joan Pearson Watkins (b. 1924 – d. 2013), of Tomales, California; March 14, 2014, ownership transferred to The Revocable Trust of Joan Pearson Watkins; 2018, gift of The Revocable Trust of Joan Pearson Watkins to the MFA. (Accession date: December 12, 2018)
NOTE:
Joan Pearson (later Joan Pearson Watkins) was the head of the Ceramic Department at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, 1951-1957.
NOTE:
Joan Pearson (later Joan Pearson Watkins) was the head of the Ceramic Department at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, 1951-1957.
William Morris Hunt