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Power Plant II
1949
Charmion von Wiegand
Charmion von Wiegand (American, 1896–1983)
American Painting and Sculpture
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 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. A journalist before she turned painter, von Wiegand once worked as a foreign correspondent in Moscow.
- Maker/Artist
- Wiegand, Charmion von
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1982.178
- Credit Line
- Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art,
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
- Museum Location
- 226B American Modern
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