id: 150760
accession number: 1982.178
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Power Plant II, 1949. Charmion von Wiegand (American, 1896–1983). Oil on canvas; framed: 63.5 x 79 x 4 cm (25 x 31 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 50.9 x 61 cm (20 1/16 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 1982.178
title: Power Plant II
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creation date: 1949
creation date earliest: 1949
creation date latest: 1949
current location: 226B American Modern
creditline: Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Charmion von Wiegand (American, 1896–1983) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 63.5 x 79 x 4 cm (25 x 31 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 50.9 x 61 cm (20 1/16 x 24 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Lincoln, NE, commission to Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, NY
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(Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
date: 1982
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1982–
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fun fact:
A journalist before she turned painter, von Wiegand once worked as a foreign correspondent in Moscow.
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A lively composition of rectangles and squares arranged like conduits in a grid, Power Plant II pulses with energy befitting its title. Von Wiegand, a forceful woman with great flair, served a term as president of Abstract American Artists, an organization established to promote abstraction at a time when it generated strong critical and popular resistance.
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A lively composition of rectangles and squares arranged like conduits in a grid, Power Plant II pulses with energy befitting its title. Von Wiegand, a forceful woman with great flair, served a term as president of Abstract American Artists, an organization established to promote abstraction at a time when it generated strong critical and popular resistance.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Pincus-Witten, Robert. "Mondrian and Modrianists." In Post-Mondrian Abstraction in America March 31 to May 13, 1973. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1973.
page number: Reproduction: unpaginated
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Burnham, Jack. "Mondrian's American Circle." Arts Magazine 48 (Sept./Oct 1973).
page number: Metioned: p. 38
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Cleveland Museum of Art. "Year in Review: 1983." Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 71, no. 116 (Feb. 1984).
page number: Reproduced: p. 72
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Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: Mentioned: p. 121, n. 88; Reproduced: p. 67
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