Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury

$49.95 at de Young Museum.

STAFF RECOMMENDS "Like a seat at the cool moms table—Ruth Asawa and other creative matriarchs carve out their own way of living in the unique time and place of mid-century in the developing Bay Area, grappling with distinctions and convictions we are still confronting today." - Jennifer \ Senior Retail and Ecommerce Manager   How a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children.For most of modern history, to be an…