The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Power Plant II
1949
(American, 1896–1983)
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.)
Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 1982.178
Location: 226B American Modern
Did You Know?
A journalist before she turned painter, von Wiegand once worked as a foreign correspondent in Moscow.Description
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.- Private Collection, Lincoln, NE, commission to Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, NY1982(Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)1982–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Pincus-Witten, Robert. "Mondrian and Modrianists." In Post-Mondrian Abstraction in America March 31 to May 13, 1973. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1973. Reproduction: unpaginatedBurnham, Jack. "Mondrian's American Circle." Arts Magazine 48 (Sept./Oct 1973). Metioned: p. 38Cleveland Museum of Art. "Year in Review: 1983." Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 71, no. 116 (Feb. 1984). Reproduced: p. 72Sims, 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. Mentioned: p. 121, n. 88; Reproduced: p. 67
- 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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