Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape $3 Bill Bailey is chief curator of

Bailey is chief curator of The Frick Collection in New York

it has since become one of the world's most important repositories of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century

—Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

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Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape $3 Bill Bailey is chief curator ofSam Nakahira Brave, unconventional, and determined, Ruth Asawa let nothing stop her from living a life intertwined with art. Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (19262013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forced into camps. Asawas family had to abandon their farm, her father was