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MARY ASCHER Fugue.
Watercolor on heavy cream wove Arches, 1958. 387x572 mm; 15 1/4x22 1/2 inches. Signed in watercolor in Japanese, lower left, and titled and dated in pencil, lower left. Countersigned and dated in watercolor, verso.
Ascher studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, Hunter College, and the Art Students League. A printmaker and painter, she took part in many multicultural group exchange exhibitions including Japanese Women Artists in 1960, and Argentine Artists in 1963. In 1973, her 30-year retrospective was held in New York at the National Arts Club and her work was also exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979. Ascher was honored with the artist's prize at the International Women's Year Awards in 1975.
