Description

Growing up in California in Japanese household; her parents' farm; internment during World War II; study of art; her career as an artist; community involvement, particularly in public school art programs; service on city and state art commissions and panels. Copies of photographs inserted.
Followed by transcript of interview with her husband, Albert Lanier, tape-recorded 1979: Architecture, Gardens, and the Individual. ([5], 32 p.).
Also with these, as documentary material supplementing the interviews: copies of reports on school art programs; invitations for gallery showings; clippings, etc. (1 box).

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Title
Ruth Asawa, Art, competence and citywide cooperation for San Francisco; tape recorded interview conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1974 and 1976
Creator
Asawa, Ruth.
interviewer., Nathan, Harriet,
Lanier, Albert, 1927-
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
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Full Collection Name
California Audiovisual Preservation Project
Other Identifiers
cabeuroh_000160
Subject (Corporate)
San Francisco (Calif.). Art Commission.
Subject (Topic)
Women artists California -- Biography.
Japanese California -- Biography.
Art Study and teaching -- California.
Architects California -- Biography.
Femmes artistes Californie -- Biographies.
Japonais Californie -- Biographies.
Art Étude et enseignement -- Californie.
Architectes Californie -- Biographies.
Geographic Coverage
United States -- California -- Berkeley.
Type
Audio
Format
Oral histories.
Archive
The Library
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